The Schools’ Collection

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    1848 - Two local men - at least - fought in 1848 with Smith O' Brien at Ballingarry.

    CBÉS 0342

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    Patrick Dunworth, Ballingarry was drowned in the Mague, Adare, Co. Limerick.

    CBÉS 0500

    Mrs Mc Cann

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  3. Ballingarry Exiled

    CBÉS 0500

    Eily Bohan, Mrs Bohan

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    Long ago a blacksmith lived in Ballingarry.

    CBÉS 0507

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    Adare fair is dead - and buried - so is Drumnun and nobody now-a-days ever hears of Ballingarry fair and I have it from my father that in his father's and grandfather's time, there used be a most famous horse-fair there.

    CBÉS 0507

    Dick Butler

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    Ballynockane (referred to on page 117 as the place where it is alleged leipreacáin appeared in the August of this year - 1938) is a townland in Ballingarry Parish.

    CBÉS 0507

    R. B.

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  7. Ballingarry Moat

    CBÉS 0510

    Mary O' Donnell, Michael Quirke

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  8. Ballingarry Moat

    CBÉS 0510

    Mary Clancy, Michael Quirke

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  9. The War House - Ballingarry

    CBÉS 0556

    Mary Horan, Mr Edward Hall

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    On a hill called the Cnoc Bán in Ballyphilip parish of Ballingarry County Tipperary...

    CBÉS 0562

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    Williamstown Castle sinte on Mr Edmond O'Shea's farm at Clashduff, Parish of Ballingarry Barony of Slievardagh...

    CBÉS 0562

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  12. The Parish of Ballingarry - 75 Years Ago

    CBÉS 0563

    Ballingarry, Co. Tipperary

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  13. A Ballingarry Tragedy

    CBÉS 0563

    Philis Campion

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  14. Ballad - Langley of the Iron Hand

    One often hears by the fireside in Ballingarry the story of Langley of the Iron Hand who fought with Cromwell at Clonmel.

    CBÉS 0563

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  15. Scoileanna Cois Claí - Hedge-Schools in Ballingarry Parish

    CBÉS 0563

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  16. Stories

    Not very long ago there lived in Ballingarry a woman...

    CBÉS 0569

    M. A. Walshe, P. Walsh

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  17. Ballingarry Hill

    CBÉS 0933

    Teresa Dooley

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