School: San Leonard, Ballycullane
- Location:
- Saintleonards, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Mary B. Dunphy
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0871, Page 129
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- Duffy's Election 1852 (See page 126)
From the time of "Duffy's Election" onward, the Howlett business began to fail. Howletts did not see eye to eye with Canon Doyle in the Election, taking the opposite side. It is said that the unconquerable Canon prophesied that the grass would grow at Howlett's door. So it did, literally.This old family produced eminent doctors, lawyers, merchants who ruled the town in years gone by. To-day they lie inside an iron-railed enclosure in St. Stephen's Cemetery (in direct line down from the entrance gate) awaiting the last trumpet.
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