Scoil: Cora Caitlín (B.)

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1. Historic Ruins in the Neighbourhood (ar lean)

   

   Roinn Roinn Postáil

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   soldiers. Major William and Henry Strainer siezed the Abbey while the monks were celebrating Mass and the former attempted to drag the officiating priest from the alter, but the old friar with up-lifted arms found time to curse his assailant and foretell the destruction of his race.

   Strainet (?) burned down the building and according to one authortiy, hanged the celebrant. The Cromwellians seized the head of the College, Eugene O'Cathain whom they first scourged and then hung.

   Another member of the community Roger McNamara, a learned professer of the College his ancestors had built, was seized by the soldiers and taken to Ennis where he was first shot and his head severed from his body.

   The remaining monks fled to Drim and aiding the parish priest lived on unmolested.One monk clung to his home till the middle of the 18th century.

   (leanann ar an chéad leathanach eile)

   

   Tras-scríofa ag duine dár meitheal tras-scríbhneoirí deonacha.

   Stair Athraigh

   Teanga

   Béarla

   Bailitheoir

   James Long

   Inscne

   Fireann

   Aois

   11

   Faisnéiseoir

   P.J. Mc Namara

   Inscne

   Fireann

   Aois

   42

   Seoladh

   Cora Chaitlín, Co. an Chláir