School: Clochar na Trócaire, Teampoll Mór (roll number 9407)

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1. A Few Notes Upon Templemore and the Happenings Within It (continued)

   

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   then P.P. and I was present at its Consecration by Archbishop Leahy in 1862. Before the old Chapel was built in 1815, the place of worship for Templemore Catholics, I used to hear, was a thatched structure, situated in Eastwood, somewhere behind the site of the present Protestant Church and Rectory. There were several schools in Templemore in my childhood days. Rev. Patrick McShae had a classical school in the Mall, in portion of the house afterwards occupied by James Harrington, the tailor. There was a private school in Bradley's Row and a Miss Alcock had a private Protestant School in Church Street. The boys and girls National Schools were then in the New Row, the boys upstairs, the girls

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   History Edit

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Josie Brennan

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Patrick Street, Co. Tipperary

   Informant

   Mr Michael Casey

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   84

   Address

   Drogheda, Co. Louth