School: Mostrim (B.) (roll number 2083)
- Location:
- Edgeworthstown, Co. Longford
- Teacher: Richard Hyland
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0770, Page 355
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- (continued from previous page)of Betty Pointing belongs to a later date. In the Penal days the mass was banned and the Priest in hiding with a "price" upon his head.
About a century ago a thin old woman named Biddy Pointing by this time was not able to travel to the regular parish church made it her practice to go to this spot and say her mass prayers where her parents and perhaps herself in her early youth had witnessed and attended mass offered under the trying difficulties and dangers of those unhappy times.
There were some old residents in Kilsalla about forty years ago who(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Albert Anderson
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Patrick Farrell
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Kilsallagh, Co. Longford
