School: Scoil na mBráthar, Doon (roll number 16713)
- Location:
- Doon, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: An Br. Ó Cathasaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0519, Page 296
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- (continued from previous page)they never played with the other children or dared to mingle with them. Many of the people however, felt sadly sympathetic towards these unhappy creatures, who, in their distress, fell away from the faith and hoped to see them return. Many of them did return, and seldom did any of them die without sending for the priest and seeking reconciliation with God.There are today (1930) but two Protestant families in the parish, or rather the expiring remnants of these families. Not one representative of the soupers or their perverts remains. Two things are specially worthy of notice in the people of that period, 1800 to 1830 One was the full and accurate knowledge they had of the Christian Doctrine, even though many of them were illiterate or nearly so. Another was that the native language was their ordinary and favourite medium of expression. Yet the next generation lost it completely - a proof of the rapidity with which the Gaeltacht shrinks.Before 1840 Lord Stanley, who owned some 600 acres in and around the village, gave(continues on next page)
