School: Glascorn (roll number 16615)
- Location:
- Glascarn, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: Mrs Hope
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0736, Page 234
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- There was a priest in the district during the Penal Times and he had a price of ten pounds on his head. Men called "priest-hunters" were trying to get him. But he dressed in the clothes of an old woman and herded a cow along the side of the road. The soldiers and priest hunters often passed by the "old woman" and they did not mind her. They never thought that she was a priest. The woman often asked them not to hurt her cow and they always replied "No, we will not hurt the cow granny."(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Keeffe
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 12
- Address
- Coolnahay, Co. Westmeath
- Informant
- Patrick Keeffe
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 74
- Occupation
- Lock-keeper
- Address
- Coolnahay, Co. Westmeath