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School: Árd-Fhearta

Location:
Ard Fhearta, Co. Chiarraí
Teacher:
Tomás Ua Nuanáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0414, Page 014

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0414, Page 014

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  1. Local Marriages (continued)

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    They were often visited by straw boys who were not invited to the wedding feast but who dressed up and went, in order to get drink and to dance.
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  2. Penal Laws

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    Long ago when priests were forbidden to say Mass the priest would send out a word quietly to the people that he would say Mass at a certain place, and all the faithful would follow him.
    On one of these sessions a priest was saying Mass in a glen the alarm from the watchers who were watching for some distance from the priest. The priest could not leave for he was at the Consecration. Nearby three weathers sprang up from the ground and the bloodhounds followed them. They at Akearagh.
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    Topics
    1. am
      1. tréimhsí staire sonracha (~25)
        1. aimsir na bpéindlíthe (~4,335)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Annie Boyle
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Cill Fhiacaile, Co. Chiarraí
    Informant
    Mr Patrick Boyle
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Cill Fhiacaile, Co. Chiarraí