School: Clochar na Toirbhirte, Thurles (roll number 4068)
- Location:
- Thurles, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: An tSr. Aodán
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- 2. Brittas is my native place, in which nine families reside. It contains the ruins of St Cronan's church yard. It was once famed for a rockery of crows but these have long forsaken it. There are also forts in Brittas and it is surrounded by a wood.
- 3. The name of my home district is Thurles, called in Irish Durlas Éile. Long ago a man called Fogarty built a durlas round his house People began to make their homes nearly until at last the town of Thurles grew. It got its name when Fogarty died.
- Collector
- Nancy Mc Carthy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Thurles, Co. Tipperary