School: Newtown, Kells (roll number 5053)
- Location:
- Newtown (Shea), Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: (name not given)
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- During the penal times, it was considered a crime for priests to say mass, and because of this, they were hunted down, betrayed and put to death. In those days, people were bribed and paid to give information about priests so they had to flee to the fields and houses to say mass.
It is handed down that mass was said in the fields in Ladyswell and the sorrounding district. There is(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Máirín Ní Longáin
- Other names
- Máirín Ní Longáin
- Maureen Lanigan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Kells, Co. Kilkenny
- Informant
- Mr John Ryan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 43
- Address
- Kellsborough, Co. Kilkenny
