School: Ráth Ciaragáin (Mount Bolus)
- Location:
- Rathkeeragan, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: S. Mac Giolla
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- (continued from previous page)the gallows tree is there to the present day.
- In the old times a Bishop and a priest lived in Rathrobin near Mount Bolus. They built a cave near the bog of Clonshanna and they used to say mass in the cave every day. The people round about the place used to go to the mass.
- Collector
- Nora Scully
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Rathlihen, Co. Offaly
- When the priests were saying mass long ago in Ireland. They were persecuted very much. They used to say mass in the shelter of a big rock. When the priests were caught saying mass in any of these places they were killed.