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School: Rush Hall, Mountrath (roll number 12231)

Location:
Rush Hall, Co. Laois
Teacher:
P. Ó Lochlainn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0825, Page 285

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  1. Local Heroes (continued)

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    set out from this district walking to the fairs of Kilkenny, Birr, Nenagh, Thurles,and other long distances the morning of the fair and return again at night walking.
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  2. Local Happenings

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    There is a monument in the townsland of Loran in the parish of Castletown and it is known as Rourke's Monument. In the time of the famine in 1847 a man returning home died with hunger there. A bush marks the place.
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    Topics
    1. activities
      1. social activities (~7)
        1. rites of passage (~573)
    2. objects
      1. man-made structures
        1. historical and commemorative structures (~6,794)
    3. events
      1. hardship (~1,565)
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