School: Clochar na Trócaire, Teampoll Mór (roll number 9407)

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1. A Few Notes Upon Templemore and the Happenings Within It (continued)

   

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   in 1815 the Main Street was only built up as far as the Queen's Arm's Hotel. The subsequent growth of the town being the work of the following thirty or forty years. In the early 18th century years the Catholic Parochial Union consisted of Killea and Templemore only with Killea as headquarters and the Protestant Parochial Union was then that of Drom and Templemore and Killinavogue (now Clonmore) was then a separate Catholic parish with a Pastor or its own. One of the traditions I used to hear as a child was that an 18th century Protestant Rector -Paul Higgins- who died in 1724 and whose grave is still to be seen in

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   Language

   English

   Collector

   Josie Brennan

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Patrick Street, Co. Tipperary

   Informant

   Mr Michael Casey

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   84

   Address

   Drogheda, Co. Louth