School: Ballykilmurry
- Location:
- Ballykilmurry, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: Bean Uí Odhráin
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- Father McDonough was ordained in Maynooth College. He was ordained for foreign missions. There were searching the ship that he was going on and he escaped in a sailors suit. The wicked people pursued him. He made his escape from Dublin to the Queens County. The people who pursued him had a pitch cap. He then made his escape to Ballykilmurry and hid in the arch which leads from one castle to another. He made his escape to Croak Patrick and said mass on the hill of croak Patrick. The people going to mass met the wicked people and their feet were cut off.
- Collector
- Thomas Burke
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballydrohid, Co. Offaly
- Informant
- Patrick Hogan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 76
- Occupation
- Farmer
