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School: Rathnure (C.) (roll number 12480)

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Rathnure Upper, Co. Wexford
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Cáit Ní Bholguidhir
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0900, Page 355

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    six miles from New Ross. It takes only about a quarter of an hour to go from Rathgarogue Station to New Ross by train. There is a Teacher's residence attached to the Rathgarogue School, and James lived in this with his sister, who acted as housekeeper for him.
    Every Saturday James went by train to New Ross on his business.
    The people of Ballybawn, where James was reared always go to New Ross, for their marketing, as it is their nearest market town, and no Saturday passed by without James seeing some of his neighbours from Ballybawn.
    It so happened on this Saturday John Redmond, Bartle Furlong, James Whelan, and Thomas Ryan went to Ross, with loads of corn, a distance of 9 miles. The corn
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. agents (~1)
      1. supernatural and legendary beings (~14,864)
    Language
    English
    Informant
    John Redmond
    Gender
    Male
    Occupation
    Farmer
    Address
    Ballybaun, Co. Wexford