School: Foxrock, Ballacolla (roll number 15562)
- Location:
- Clogh, Co. Laois
- Teacher: M. Bevans
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0830, Page 029
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- The townland of Cuffsborough.
Under the Cromwell regime the lands of Ballygooden were granted to Captain Cuffe and from this Captain Cuffe this townland has got its name. In this townland is the Bishop's well adnd near it was the site of an old church. No trace of the building exists. Tradition tells us that an underground passage connected this church with the monastery at Aghaboe.
The Cuffsborough estate was purchased and presented to Henry Grattan as a national gift.
Sir Henry Grattan-Bellew Bart. Mount Bellew, Co Galway and later Lady Bellew were Patrons of the local national school. Foxrock National School and up to 1912 when the estate was sold to the Land Commissioners, an annual grant of £=5 was made to the teachers of the school by the Patron.
The Grattan-Bellew estate and the Granstown (Lord Castletown) estate adjoined, the mass Path through sir William Connor's field at Court; Clough marking the division.
- Collector
- Mary Connor
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Court, Co. Laois
- Informant
- William Connor
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 49
- Address
- Court, Co. Laois
