... spread all over that plain spot and the priest celebrating Mass under the rock, on an altar made of loose stones, and tho' it was half a mile distant, I observed his Pontifical vestment with a black cross on it ; for in all this country for sixty... Pococke's Tour in Ireland in 1752 - Page 46by Richard Pococke - 1891 - 187 pagesFull view - About this book
| Richard Pococke - Ireland - 1891 - 228 pages
...observed his Pontifical vestment with a black cross on it ; for in all this country for sixty milss west and south as far as Connaught, they celebrate...to the south east to Mr. Wrays and saw in the Doe way Doe Castle, it is a fine square turret of five stories and Castie, near sixty feet high, it is... | |
| Andrew Hadfield, John McVeagh - History - 1994 - 356 pages
...west and south as far as Connaught, they celebrate in the open air, in the fields or on the mountain; the Papists being so few and poor, that they will not be at the expence of a public building. 5) Arthur Young From Tour in Ireland (1776-6):15 i) Dancing is very general among the poor people,... | |
| Lawrence J. Taylor - Religion - 1995 - 308 pages
...black cross on it; for in all this country for sixty miles west and south as far as Connaught, the v celebrate in the open air, in the fields or on the...they will not be at the expence of a public building. (Pococke 1752: 60) The very movement of these clerics — "vagrant strolling Priests and fryars" from... | |
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