School: Newtown, Kells (roll number 5053)
- Location:
- An Baile Nua (Shea), Co. Chill Chainnigh
- Teacher: (ní thugtar ainm)
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- (continued from previous page)a priest offering up the holy sacrifice of the mass one Sunday in this place.
When he was in the middle of the mass the yoemen came and killed him.
The blood of the priest is got on the stones in the well, up to the present day.
There was once a priest in Kells during the Penal Times, and he was working with the farmers, so that the yoes would not know him. One night the yoes came into Kells.
A woman named Thornton betrayed the priest. The yoes at once arrested him(continues on next page)
- Collector
- James Mullins
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Na Muilte, Co. Chill Chainnigh
- Informant
- John Mullins
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 67
- Address
- Gráinseach Cheanannais, Co. Chill Chainnigh
