School: An Clochar, Loughkent, New Inn
- Location:
- Loughkent West, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: An tSr. Máire Brighid
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0559, Page 011
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- Quite near the village of New Inn stands what is known locally as the "Glebe House." It strikes the ordinary passer by as being a very fine, and apparently well-kept residence, that is judging from outward appearances. So is the house kept in good repair by the owner inw hose family it has been for perhaps a century, and perhaps longer.
Yet, strange to say, this large, airy building situated mid lovely grassy field is not inhabited at all. Nor has any family dwelt there in for many a long year. The vast majority of the inhabitants of New Inn and the surroundings scarcely know anything of thereal reason though many a mone may tell you "Its haunted."
I, too shared in the more or less universal ignorance, or maybe more correctly speaking, indifference until quite recently, when I chanced to meet a very old inhabitant who certainly enlightened me about the(continues on next page)
