Scoil: Firoda (uimhir rolla 2788)

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   “The local "Estate" was Wandesforde's of Castlecomer.”

   

   Roinn Roinn Postáil

   No. 18.
   The local "Estate was Wandesforde's of Castlecomer. Wandesforde did not mix much among the people. The best remembered land-lord is the Doherty referred to in No. 17. He is remembered as a "good" man. He paid men to drain the land and build houses - Shore's, Mansfield's, Lacey's, Comerford's and Dooney's or Downey's, all in Upper Firoda. He also "limed" and planted trees on the land. This Doherty lived in Dublin. He also built a house - Cashin's in Firoda, the walls of which are only left now. This man built O'Connell Bridge Dublin; he was an architect and a builder.

   Note :- The first sentence of above is wrong. The idea arose from the fact that Wandesfordes now hold the mining rights of the district.
   Under the O'Brennan's Firoda was only a hunting ground. The English plantations caused its habitation. It, Firoda & Glenmagoo, (see diagram) was divided into two estates the Vaux Estate in Firoda & the Carberry Estate in Glenmagoo. All the land was divided about 150 years ago among six families - two Murphys, Dormer, Coogan, Byrne and Whelan. The lease was to last from the life-time of an infant then 3 mths. old. He lived to be an old man and was the grand-father of Mr. Timothy Coogan of Castlecomer & great grand-father of Deputy Commissioner Coogan Gárda Síothchána.
   Some years later the tenants discovered coal in Firoda & the landlords then broke their agreement

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