School: Tír-Dhá-Ghlas (Terryglass)
- Location:
- Terryglass, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Seán Ó Gliasáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0530, Page 464
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- (continued from previous page)to the year 1826.
(I got a traditional story regarding this church as the time that Father Neylon, or Nealon was parish priest, and as it describes a long dispute between a section of the laity and clergy I consider it not becoming to give the account here. The chief reason for not giving the sotry here is that some Catholics committed a serious breach of Catholic discipline through revenat on the clergy. Seán Gleeson).
- The present laneway which leads from Terryglass to the Shannon was used over a hundred years ago as a public road. Farmers used cart their wheat down to Terryglass Quay where a corn merchant came to purchase all the grain of the whole locality. There is now no trace of the Quay, but it is well known where it existed - near the mouth of Terryglass River.
At the harvest time, then, boats called at the Quay and carried away all corn the farmers had to sell. - Informant
- William Heenan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- c. 60
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Crossanagh, Co. Tipperary
