School: Tyrrellspass (2) (roll number 13743)
- Location:
- Tyrrellspass, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: Mrs Payne
Open data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Tyrrellspass (2)
- XML Page 192
- XML “A Garage”
- XML “The Church”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- (continued from previous page)with the electricity & this means less labour to the garage assistant but it does not mean he will loose his job.Our local garage is Walter Glynnes. He came here from the county Longford & started a bicycle shop& he got on well & then he erected a large garage for motor cars etc, & he got on well at this also. He is a middle aged man & I am sure he has lots of money because he does a very big trade & he is popular with everyone because he does not charge too high. Alan Hodgins aged 13
Dalystown
Mullingar 12.10.38 - Long ago the church of Tyrrellspass was about two miles in the village in a place called Clonfad. The remains of it are still to be seen in the grave yard.The people thought it was in very bad repair & they called a vestry meeting & they decided to build a new one in 1791. They built it 1792. Everyone in the parish had to pay so much to build it & lend a hand whenever they were wanted & the farmers had to give their horses to draw the stones from the quarry at Gneevebane & this gave great employment to the poor people. When they were going to build it they had to be very particular about(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Alan Hodgins
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Dalystown, Co. Westmeath
- Informant
- Mr Spiller
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Teacher