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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   reached town the P.P. and the M.P. rode out at once to the scene and by persuasion and indeed by riding between the combatants prevented more harm than was done from being effected. The Sisters of Mercy were brought to Templemore in 1863 by Dr. O'Connor who built for them the Convent, now the orphanage in which they first resided. The new convent was built by Mother Mary Joseph Walsh in 1871 and the old convent converted into an orphanage when the sisterhood took possession of their new home. After the nuns came to Templemore the girls schools were changed from the New Row to St. Anne's in Mary Street and the entire New Row building was given to

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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