School: Ráth Ciaragáin (Mount Bolus)

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1. The Penal Times

   

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   In the penal days the priests had to say mass out in glens and woods. If they were seen saying mass they would be killed. There are two mass rocks in a place called Rahan. It is west of Tullamore. One of these mass rocks is in a wood. There was a holy well beside it but it is dried up now. There is a thing in the shape to a hut where the priest used to stop. there is a brook running beside it.

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      1. tréimhsí staire sonracha (~25)
         1. aimsir na bpéindlíthe (~4,335)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Frances Egan

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Log an Mharla, Co. Uíbh Fhailí

2. The Penal Times

   

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   In the penal days there was a priest by the name of Fr. Molloy. He was sheltered in Rathrobin Castle about a quarter of a mile East side of Mt Bolus. The name of the man that owned the Castle was Colonel Biddulph he was a protestant. One day the Yeoman were up in Balybritt and they sent for the priest, and they said there was a man sick, and the man was

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