School: Lisronagh, Cluain Meala (roll number 6789)
- Location:
- Lisronagh, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Éamonn Ó Conchubhair
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0568, Page 015
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- Half-penny Well is situated in the parish of Lisronagh, Co Tipperary on the townlands of Orchardstown. In olden times a pattern used be held at Half-penny Well. In the centre of the spring is a round stone on which offerings used be laid. From that it got its name. Near Half-penny Well is a ruin in which an old Irish family name Hackett used to live. There were large orchards behind this ruin and from the townland got the name of Orchardstown.
In the Penal times there was a small thatched chapel in one of the fields of Orchardstown. the people used come secrectly to mass there. the orchards are now gone but the field is still known as the "Chapel field".
