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    the shrubbery at the opposite side. Some hours later he saw her returning in the same manner, so he determined to question her. Meeting her before she could reach the kitchens, he asked her where she had been. The frightened servant could answer nothing at first, but when her master commanded her to speak out, she bravely answered that she had been at mass. He made her tell where the mass was said and she answered that it was said in a field across the Barrow in Treascon. Instead of the scolding she expected, her master told her to go
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    History Edit
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Máire Ní hÓráiste
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    Bean Ua Dhúinn
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Bracklone, Co. Laois