School: Portlaoighse (Convent) (roll number 13386)
- Location:
- Port Laoise, Co. Laois
- Teacher: Sr Treasa
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- (continued from previous page)everybody, and the priest put her under the Buffer's bridge outside the domain.
They were never a trouble to anybody again. Some time before he died his nephew named Thomas Cernes held a place outside Stradbally now held by Youngs. Cernes put it up for sale the law of the land at that time was if you had land for sale the first bid you would get you should sell it. Cernes got sorry when the land was sold then his uncle Jelly built a small house in Shean where the chapel now stands. Lord Portarlington evicted all the people around Coolbanaghar and gave their homes to Cernes, then when Jelly died he fell in for all.
His rents were £2,000 a year. He was then succeeded by his son Harry Cernes who did(continues on next page)- Collector
- Josephine Dunne
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballydavis, Co. Laois
- Informant
- Mr Charles Hyland
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballydavis, Co. Laois