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burned the thatch of all the houses.
The people then built big, stron, nice houses. A man called " Moore who owned all the land around Tullamoore intended to build his castle in Henry St. but he changed his mind ? and he built it in Charleville.
Long ago the Parochial House was a hotel called the Grand Canal Hotel, and the ticket office is near our school.
Tullamoore means the district of O'Moore, because a man called O'Moore possessed all the land around the town.
When the railway was extended from Portarlington to Cloomich Daingean ceased