School: Newtown, Kells (roll number 5053)
- Location:
- Newtown (Shea), Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: (name not given)
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- (continued from previous page)called the Mass bush, and all the people used to go to Mass there in the penal times.
Long ago when the people of the district was emigrating to America, they used to come and take a twig of the Mass Bush with them. They used to say it would save them from being drowned when travelling.
There is a mass path convenient to my home leading from Kilree to Chapelizod, where the people used to come through the fields to Dunnamaggin Mass. That path is also(continues on next page)- Collector
- Máire de Paor
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Haggard, Co. Kilkenny
- Informant
- Mr John Marnell
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 83
- Address
- Dunnamaggan, Co. Kilkenny