School: Cill Rosanta (C.), Coill Mhic Thomáisín
- Location:
- Kilmacthomas, Co. Waterford
- Teacher: Áine Ní Fhaoláin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0648, Page 16
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- (continued from previous page)and heard them preach the appealing and eloquent Irish sermons in the little thatched chapel in the centre of the present Kilrossanty graveyard. Those saintly priests were educated and ordained abroad and recalled from far away to rekindle the dying embers of the faith.
Practically half the parish was Protestant at this time and it was customary to see the Presbyterian Preacher at every fair and market inducing the people to join what they called the reformed church. He said he witnessed the great struggle of the 1826 election when the supremacy of the Beresfords was tried. Curraghmore was then at the peak of its power. Forty freeholders on the bank of the Mahon were forcibly thrown out on the roadside for voting against their Lord. He contended that it was we Waterford people won Catholic Emancipation and not Clare. You had no National School at this time but of course private teachers went to the houses, the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Keating
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 15
- Address
- Mahon Bridge, Co. Waterford
- Informant
- Patrick Power
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- c. 58
- Occupation
- Shopkeeper
- Address
- Mahon Bridge, Co. Waterford
