School: Rahelty, Dúrlas Éile (roll number 4513)
- Location:
- Ráth Eilte, Co. Thiobraid Árann
- Teacher: Tadhg Mac Domhnaill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0553, Page 158
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- (continued from previous page)is supposed to have been near the side of the old run in Powers field. Nearby is Rathmanage House where lived a Billy Ryan who evicted a number of people from Corbally and put the stones of their houses in ditched. He left Borris Church one Sunday when Father Grace was denouncing evictions.
- In 1432 Richard O'Hedian - a Bishop of Cashel, got from James Earl of Ormond safe conduct for all pilgrims who visited Thurles 3 days before and 3 days after the feast of the Assumption. Mass must be said in the open. There is a Mass Tree near the well and this may be much older than the Penal Days.
- This was in the passage into the Palace and here two men named Cahill natives of Thurles started a school from which later developed the Christian Brothers. A man named Shanahan had a classical school behind the house now occupied by Loughlin, Scully, Cathedral St.
