School: Cnoc Crochaire (roll number 4955)
- Location:
- Knockcroghery, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Brian Ó hUidhir
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- (continued from previous page)time. A certain Priest used to hide there and the people around used to bring him food.
Before day-break every Sunday morning and on week mornings the Priest came and said mass for the people . One or two used to stand on the ditch while the Priest used to be saying mass and watch lest the soldiers would capture him. There is said to have been a hut used as a chapel but there is no sign of it now. But there still remains a holy water font cut out of stone. It is a long square stone and a hole in the middle of it shaped like a trough and it was there the holy water used to be kept.
Some people say that the Priest was captured and killed(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Hugh Connaughton
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Corboley, Co. Roscommon
- Informant
- Bernard Fallon
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Corboley, Co. Roscommon
