School: Coolronan (roll number 16247)
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- Teacher: Bean Uí Chonmhidhe
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- (continued from previous page)under it.There is a place in Joyces wood. It is a big round hole and very deep.
People say Mass used to be said there. There was a lot of stones with drawing on them. Then a lot of men used to be cutting trees and they saw then and brought them off. - Rosie Smyth got this from her father Michael Smyth, Grangemore. Her father told her that he doesn't remember the penal times but he hear his father saying that Catholics used to hear Mass behind the ditch. The altar would be on the grass. All the people would stand round and hear mass.
- Long ago when Catholics weren't allowed to go to school the learned people would teach the children in their own houses.Mary Fox got this account from her father Eugene Fox, Rathcormick.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Moya Fox
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Rathcormick, Co. Meath
- Informant
- Eugene Fox
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Rathcormick, Co. Meath