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School: Clochar na Trócaire, Ráth Luirc

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0368, Page 395

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    there to work for them. So they made a law that all the Catholics who owned a cart had to lead it to draw stones for a day. Every man who owned a spade had to lend it to the Protestants and every man had to work one day there.
    Now that the Church was nearly finished there was only one thing wanting to complete it - that was a clock. The Protestants did not want to go to any expense by buying a clock.
    The present Court House was then owned by the Catholics and there was a fine clock in front
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. time
      1. historical periods by name (~25)
        1. penal times (~4,335)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Pilimíne Ní Riain
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Charleville, Co. Cork
    Informant
    Seosamh
    Relation
    Relative (other than parent or grandparent)
    Gender
    Male