School: Ardcath (roll number 1903)

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1. Opinion of William Bellew Regarding Old Chapel in the Village of Ardcath - Now a National School (continued)

   

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   assistants out of it and locked the door thereof and put the Key in his pocket and went to breakfast at a neighbour's hose in the village.
   The said John Leonard on his returning home after breakfast passed by the said chapel and saw one of the doors thereof open and saw therein the said Gerald Dillon and the carpenter at work under his direction and the said John Leonard having inquired by what means they entered the chapel was told by the carpenter that the bottom light of one of ths sashes had been broached and that he was put in through the window and had opened one of the doors which was only closed by a bolt in the inside
   Rev Leonard then desired the said Gerald Dillon to quite the chapel which he refused to do and Rev Leonard told Mr Dillon that he would pull down as fast as they would build notwithstanding which did by desire of Gerald Dillon proceed in erecting the Gallery.
   On the evening of the said day the said John Leonard brought four or five men to the chapel and pulled down some rafters that were nailed up and had them and the other timber and boards which had been brought there by the desire of Mr Dillon removed out of the chapel and laid in the street of Ardcath where they remained til lthe following evening, when Mr Dillon had them brought to Manningstown
   The said G. Dillon now threatens that he will take possession fo the ground on which the old chapel

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   1. agents (~1)
      1. supernatural and legendary beings (~14,864)

   Language

   English

   Informant

   James J. Dunican

   Gender

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