School: Inch, Borris
- Location:
- Clanagh, Co. Carlow
- Teacher: Michael J. O'Donoghue
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0903, Page 593
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- (continued from previous page)They tie straw and rags on their boots and stockings. When they go to the house they dance and sing. Then they go to some of the neighbour's houses.
- In the Penal times when priests' were not allowed to say mass in public they had to say it in lonely places where they would not be in danger of the English soldiers.The priest used to go to a certain house in each district to say mass and to hear confessions. They used to go to a house in Ballyglisheen owned by Dan Cummins. There was a chapel in it also in a field now owned by Patrick Flood. The old people say that part of inch school was built with the stones of this chapel.In Rathgearin there was a mass rock where mass used bed said. There was a chapel in Kavanagh's field of Newtown. The walls are still there.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Martin Lennon
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cournellan, Co. Carlow
- Informant
- Mr Andrew Neill
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballyglisheen, Co. Carlow
