School: Forgney, Ballymahon (roll number 860)
- Location:
- Forgney, Co. Longford
- Teacher: Mrs B. Higgins
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0750, Page 461
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- (continued from previous page)his estate to the Forestry Department, and plantations are being carried out there at the present time. He has retained the mansion and a few hundred acres for his own use.
He spends a few months of the year at Newcastle. In the pretty Protestant Church on the estate is a window as memorial to Oliver Goldsmith who was born at Pallas about a mile from Newcastle.
- He was born in Pallas, where his father was a curate to the Rector of Kilkenny West. The ruins of his house are stil be to be seen. They are in a field owned by a man named John Mara (?).All that remains of the residence is a low stone wall about a perch long. There are stones scattered about also. The site is overgrown with bushes. There seems to have been a garden in front of the house. People come to Pallas(continues on next page)
- Collector
- James Mc Donald
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 11
- Address
- Pallas More, Co. Longford
