School: Kilmeedy (B.) (roll number 7161)
- Location:
- Kilmeedy, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: John O'Grady
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0496, Page 215
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- (continued from previous page)holding any position in the service of the state, or to hold any position in the army.
They were forbidden to have schools or schoolmasters or to carry arms. It was thus, hoped to make the Irish ignorant, poor, and unable to assert their rights.
A small number of priests were registered, and only these, according to the law were permitted to say mass. The law compelled Catholics to pay dues to the Protestant clergy.
A Catholic could not own land valued at more than thirty shillings a year.
If the son of a Catholic landowner(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Denis Sullivan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Gortnacreha Lower, Co. Limerick
- Informant
- Ann Kelly
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 106
