School: Ballyhack Convent
- Location:
- Ballyhack, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: An tSr Treasa
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- (continued from previous page)probably this marriage connection with the propreitors of Dunbrody that brought about the O'Reilly settlement in Clonsharra; as they built a splendid mansion there and farmed the greater portion of the townsland.The O'Reilly farm at Clonsharra amounted to over two hundred statute acres with the homestead. They held the townland of Killisk by mortgage or what was known as middlemen from the Marquis of Ely. They also held three or four townslands under the same conditiions from Lord de Villiers of Domana Co. Waterford.As an evidence of the high social standing of this branch of the O'Reilly family, John Power O'Reilly's father was the first Catholic that sat on the magisterial bench in the Co. Wexford. Another(continues on next page)
