School: Ros Cré (B.) (roll number 1594)

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   “In a remote corner of County Tipperary, within three miles of that historic town of Roscrea with all its old monastic buildings...”

   

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   workmen put back every sod that was turned up, where the horses travelled across the grave-yard. He never interfered with that field afterwards while he lived.
   Told by - Mr Philip Doyle, Court House, Roscrea
   Written by D Tynan, Ballyhaul, Roscrea

   

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2. An Eviction

   

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   32 families were evicted from their homes in Summerhill by a landlord named Charles White of Charaville[?]. This was done for no other purpose than to exterminate the Catholicts[?], from their homes. This man brought cows from Kerry to graze on the farms. Now the cows went mad and a man named Thomas Scully sprinkled holy water on them and cured them. In 1895 Ballybritt Church was closed and it was not[?] opened until 1905. One Sunday at mass a priest named Father Meade asked the congregation who cured the cows. No one spoke a word and the priest said whoever did it would pay for it, and that he would know who did it. Immediately Scully's head was struck down by his side and he died. White's son was drowned about two years ago in a lough in Ballybrit.

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   James Moore

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   Ballyhall, Co. Tipperary

3. Hooley and the Tramp Tailor

   

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   One day Jack Hooley met a tramp-tailor coming into Roscrea. Jack was

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