School: Killurney, Cluain Meala

Location:
Killurney, Co. Tipperary
Teacher:
Máire de Brún
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0567, Page 310

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0567, Page 310

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  4. XML “The Boher Mór Robbers”

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  2. Between sixty and seventy years ago there lived in Killurney, which was then called Boher Mor, two men named Coady who were known as the Bohar Mor Robbers.
    They lived where Killurney school now stands. They killed a man by the name of Madden who informed on them.
    The policy were searching for them for a year. The Police found one of them reaping corn in Mr. Nagle's garden and they found the other Coady in a
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