School: Lemanaghan, Ballycumber
- Location:
- Lemanaghan, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: Máire Galvin
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- Priests used to hide themselves from the priest-hunters in the penal times. One of these hiding places was between Curraghlassa and Kilcolgan.
This place is called the caislean. It was built underground and it is still to be seen.
Every day a priest used to say Mass in this cave and many people attended it.
There were no house built in those days for priests to say Mass in, but they said Mass on the side of a hill or in this cave.- Collector
- Seosaimhín Ní Bhuachalla
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Curraghalassa, Co. Offaly
- Informant
- Patrick Buckley
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Curraghalassa, Co. Offaly