School: Leamhach (Leigh)
- Location:
- Leigh, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Máighread Ní Mhuireagáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0553, Page 222
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- (continued from previous page)the Mullauns.
Towards the middle of the 14th Century the Native Irish of Northern Eile - the O'Carrolls and O'Kennedys - reconquered their land from the A Normans. The Butlers had to abandon Nenagh to O'Kennedy and to withdraw from their possessions in N Eile.
Thurles now became the northern limit of Anglo Norman influence in Tipperary and became subject to the raids of the Irish chieftains. This probably explains the anxiety of the inhabitants of Thurles to wall in the town in 1356
