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School: Banagher (B.)

Location:
Banagher, Co. Offaly
Teacher:
Séamus Ó Maoilchéire
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0816, Page 359

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    My Home District, Banagher 5/12/36
    Banagher is my home district. It is my townland also. Banagher is the parish of Gallen and Rynagh and it is in the barony of Garrycastle. There are two hundred and fifty families living in Banagher. There are roughly about two hundred and thirty houses in this town, and 20 ruins of old houses. There is an old soldiers barracks in the West End. It was burned at the time of the great war. It is now used as a hand ball alley. One time during the big war there was a bomb put down opposite the railway gate to blow up the town. Something went wrong with the bomb and it id not explode. The population of
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. place-space-environment
      1. local lore, place-lore (~10,595)
    Language
    English
    Location
    Banagher, Co. Offaly
    Informant
    Mrs Curran
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    76
    Occupation
    Shopkeeper's wife
    Address
    Banagher, Co. Offaly