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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   built by Sir John Carden, Baronet, in the sixties of the last century. It was the most imposing of all the residences of the Gentry in the locality and every lover of its beauties was shocked when the news of its burning went abroad.
   One of the remarkable things about Templemore, a proof of its not being an old but a very new town and one of recent growth is the fact that it contains no thatched houses. The only thatched house in it, when I came to know it first, some seventy years ago, was that of Wm. Peacock, in Market Lane. That house was there before the town began to be built and was in the possession of the Peacock family for generations. It appears that those

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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