School: Camross, Mountrath
- Location:
- Camross, Co. Laois
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Heifernáin
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“Once there was a man coming home late in the night. ...”
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- Frank Tynan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 8
- Address
- Camross, Co. Laois
- Informant
- Thomas Tynan
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 61
- Address
- Camross, Co. Laois
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“In olden times in Upperwoods there were fierce faction fights...”
In olden times in Upperwoods there were fierce faction fights and it was quite common then to hear of people being killed. There was a faction fight in Camross graveyard when the walls of the present chapel were only three feet high with the result that it had - so tradition says - had to be consecrated again. There were also three public houses or as they were then called 'sheebens'. Before the belfry was built, the door was in the end where the present archway exists; and when the priest was saying mass he could see the fellows drinking at Dooley's Public house.(continues on next page)