Penance that was put on a man if he got a girl into trouble (pregnant). He would have to go around the Church on top of Croagh Patrick so many times on his hands and knees, and say so many rosarys
How this penance was stopped was a man went to confessions and told the Priest he had got a girl into trouble and he said to the Priest he had if he had put the penance of the reek on him he would come back and make every girl in the place pregnant, that finished that penance. In those days people were not allowed to work for Protestants The Priest would curse them of the altar. One man went to work on the Protestant Church, at station time, people were asked to pay a half crown (two shillings and six pence), the man went up to pay his dues, he put his money on the table and told the priest where he got it, the Priest looked at him but he took the Ministers money anyway.
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