School: Tobar na Brón, Piltown (roll number 1468)
- Location:
- Tobernabrone, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Bríd Paor
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- Faction fights were common in this district about fifty or sixty years ago.
When a fair or market took place the leader went to a wood and got a load of ash plants and then divided them in the market place or fair green.
One crowd was called the O'Sheas and the other Holdens.
