School: Thomastown Convent (roll number 16028)
- Location:
- Thomastown, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: An tSr M. Lelia

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- The Fieldbarge generally called "Filbars" gets its name from the times when boats came up the River Nore from New Ross. This trading is stopped now about ninty years, and the barges loaded and unloaded here, and hence the name Field-barge and it is now corrupted to Filbars.
Written by:-Mary Grace
Convent School,
Thomastown,I got this information from my father.- Collector
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