Two of Them
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Immediately Billy Bidulph started to run and never drew breath till he reached Templemore.
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Buying and Selling
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Nenagh and Templemore as well as now,
The Local Fairs
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The local fairs are held in Thurles and Templemore and Nenagh and they are in it [?]
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mark in Templemore's Main St.
Blessed Well of Aughall
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Aughall is about 2 miles from Templemore - on the road to Templetuohy.
Local Roads
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The roads round my district are called the Millroad, the bog road, the Rathenny road, the Templemore road and the Ballintemple road.
The Millbroad leads from the Templemore Rd, to the Rathenny Rd. The Bog Rd. leads from Moneygall to Robinson's Cross. The Rathenny rd. leads from Cloughjordan to Rathenny cross. The Templemore Rd. leads from Templemore to Cloughjordan. The Ballintemple Rd. leads from the Bog Rd. to Emill Cross.
The Mill Rd. is very old. It is still used. The roads were supposed to have been made in the famine times. This was done so as to give employment to
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but when Paul's domestics entered the death chamber and found a vested priest in a bed of death, there was a big to do amongst Paul's recent parishioners.
The old Chapel of Templemore was erected in 1815 by the Pastor Rev. Patrick Fant P.P. on a site given by the Carden family who then lived in Templemore House, a big house in the old demesne. A son of the then Sir John Carden used to attend mass in the Old Chapel after it was built and used to play some kind of a mechanical organ during the celebration of Sunday Mass.
The new cemetery in Templemore was also given by the Cardens to Dr. O'Connor, the
Captain Lloyd (Leader of Yeoman) and Dr Butler of Templemore
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A Father Butler of Templemore was on day on a journey to attend a dying Catholic "outlaw", and he was closely followed by Captain Lloyd and his yeomen: they had been told of his leaving Templemore on the "sick call". The "outlaw" was in hiding in the hills of Borrisnoe (near the Devils' Bit). Sure of catching the priest the yeoman took the old road. Fr. Butler told the messenger who was with him to look back and see if they were being followed. the messenger said that he thought some people on horseback were a distance behind them. "Ah!" said the priest, "These are the yeomen, and let them stay where they are." He journed on and soon reached his destination; he prepared the dying man and administered the last Sacraments and left for home. [Before he left the house the "outlaw" had died]. Accompanied again by the messenger, the priest left for home (Templemore). On the way back they encountered the people on horseback who were after them on their journey out - Captain Lloyd and his six yeomen on horseback and "they stuck to the ground". When Fr Butler was passing them by the Captain said,"Father Butler, please release us out of this place." "Come on bap-
(gan teideal)
“A long time ago there was a wild boar...”
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the tree and cut off the boar's head with an axe. He went back to the castle and told Stapleton that he killed the boar, but he wouldn't believe him. Then he went down with four men and they found the boar dead. His head was so big that four men could hardly carry it back to the castle. Purcell married the girl and lived in the Castle until he died. There is ahole called the sow's bed in Martin Connell's field in Clonomocogue, Loughmore, Templemore. The hole is about six feet long, four feet broad and ten feet deep. The old name for Loughmore was Luach-Magh and the old people still call it that. The word Luach-Magh means the prize of the plain.
collected by Michael McGrath Castlequarter, Loughmore, Templemore from Michael McGrath Loughmore, Templemore
Place Names
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Park a Tampall is a field name in the land of Mrs. Dunlea, Kilnasare, Loughmore, Templemore. The field got it's name from the ruins of an old church which can be seen yet. The mounds of earth where the graves were can be seen plainly. There are no people there now.
Gora Gale is the name of a field on Philip Gleeson's land Kilnasare, Loughmore. The field is long and narrow and that's how it got it's name.
Mooneen na Pola is the name of a field on Michael Shanahan's land Clogheraily Loughmore, Templemore.
Glosh is the name of a field on John Hennessy's land Loughmore, Templemore. The field is between two hills, and from that it got it's name.
Tobar atay is the name of a field on the land of Philip Morris Curraghmore Loughmore, Templemore.
There is a well in the field and from that it got it's name.
The green is the name of a field on John Hennessy's land Loughmore. The field was used for growing matches.
There are no games played there now.
Powl More is the name of a pond on Martin Ryan's land Tinvoher, Loughmore.
Powl Beg is the name of a pond on Patrick Keogh's land Tinvoher, Loughmore, Templemore.
Boher Pond is on the land of John Maher
Old Place Names
“There is a field in Mrs. Treacy's land in Templemore called the "Master's Meadow...”
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There is a field in Mrs. Tracy's land in Templemore called the "Master's Meadow" When Master Dargan was alive he used to take hay there every year.
A field of Mrs. Russell, Templemore is called the "White Meadow". Every Summer it is covered over with white daisies.
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A few notes upon Templemore and the happening within it.
It used to be said when I was a boy that Templemore (the Great Church) took its name from the Priory Church which the Knights Templer, it was supposed erected there in the Middle ages. The present town is a place of rather recent growth and had its first expansion towards the end of the 18th century, when the Military Barracks was erected as a consequence of the Insurrection of Ninety Eight, on a site given for it by the first
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then P.P. and I was present at its Consecration by Archbishop Leahy in 1862. Before the old Chapel was built in 1815, the place of worship for Templemore Catholics, I used to hear, was a thatched structure, situated in Eastwood, somewhere behind the site of the present Protestant Church and Rectory. There were several schools in Templemore in my childhood days. Rev. Patrick McShae had a classical school in the Mall, in portion of the house afterwards occupied by James Harrington, the tailor. There was a private school in Bradley's Row and a Miss Alcock had a private Protestant School in Church Street. The boys and girls National Schools were then in the New Row, the boys upstairs, the girls
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Baronet of the Carden family, who was given his Baronetcy as a reward for his services in raising a Corps of Yeomanry as an answer to the efforts of the Ninety Eight patriots to free their motherland.
That the Military Barracks was the Krael of the new town seems evident from the names of the adjoining places- Talavera, Richmond, Regent Bridge, King's River, The Mall and George's Street. In 1815, when Mary Sangse of Sangseastown in the parish of Fethard married James Casey, a Templemore man, I heard her say, long years after that when she came to reside in Templemore
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in 1815 the Main Street was only built up as far as the Queen's Arm's Hotel. The subsequent growth of the town being the work of the following thirty or forty years. In the early 18th century years the Catholic Parochial Union consisted of Killea and Templemore only with Killea as headquarters and the Protestant Parochial Union was then that of Drom and Templemore and Killinavogue (now Clonmore) was then a separate Catholic parish with a Pastor or its own. One of the traditions I used to hear as a child was that an 18th century Protestant Rector -Paul Higgins- who died in 1724 and whose grave is still to be seen in
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reached town the P.P. and the M.P. rode out at once to the scene and by persuasion and indeed by riding between the combatants prevented more harm than was done from being effected. The Sisters of Mercy were brought to Templemore in 1863 by Dr. O'Connor who built for them the Convent, now the orphanage in which they first resided. The new convent was built by Mother Mary Joseph Walsh in 1871 and the old convent converted into an orphanage when the sisterhood took possession of their new home. After the nuns came to Templemore the girls schools were changed from the New Row to St. Anne's in Mary Street and the entire New Row building was given to
As Regards the Name of the Town - Templemore - An Teampall Mór
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Very little bealoideas can be got about Templemore. The old residents of the town have no old stories except those which deal with their own youth e.g. Land League Days. As regards the name of the town - Templemore ( An Teampall Mor)
There is seen to this day the ruin of a Church in the Town Park. It is called the Black Castle. Tradition holds that it belonged to the Knights Templars and that it is from these the town got its name. Some doubt that the Templars had nay connection with the castle. It was still intact in Cromwell's time. Templemore was but a tiny village when Cromwell came here. "The old ruined abbey was then new and beautiful. It was inhabited by monks of the Knight Templar's Order."
[Note :- This is scarcely true as the Order was suppressed in 1312]. "Cromwell drove the monks out and took over the abbey. He resided there for about four months. The abbey was still kept in English hand until quite recently when Sir John Caraden, (on whose estate the abbey stands) died. It was afterwards burnt in 1922
The Yeoman Officer and the Priest
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An event which occured at Adamstown, Templemore.Adamstown was the H.Q. for the yeomen during the Cromwellian period; there was a hospital there. A priest named Father Fant of Templemore was going to the hospital one Sunday morning to attend a dying man - or he was on his way to Killea on a sick call as to say ?? He was followed by the yeomen. He stopped at Liemen's river to give his horse a drink. The yeomen passed him by and none of them saw him except the Officer, whose name was Campbell. The officer called to him and asked him why his men did not see him. The priest said to him -"You would not have seen me either, only you are baptised." The soldier allowed the priest to do his duty. Some time later he was at home on holidays and learned from the old family nurse that she had him baptised "secretly", when he was a baby.His parents were protestants. He had been brought up a Protestant, but now he renounced Protestantism, became a good Catholic and gave up priest hunting.
This is an error (1) No yeomen at this period (11) Fr. Fant lived in Templemore at a much later period. His remains are in a little churchyard near school play ground.
Cromwell and Knocka Castle
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Knocka Castle is about 2 miles from Templemore.
There is a supposed Sacred Room in Knocka Castle, one of the most ancient buildings in the parish of Templemore. There was a large quantity of Irish treasures and ancient Irish books which were stolen by Cromwell, a suit of arms was also found and a picture of Cromwell and a frame of gold were found and sent to the British Museum. There is a secret passage from Knocka Castle to Barnane Castle where our priest often hid when they were persecuted for their religion.
Ramsgrange Parish Plantations
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Some time after the appointment of Canon Doyle as Parish Priest of Ramsgrange Parish year Lord Templemore's (Father of present Lord Templemore) agent decided to plant the Estate with Scottish Planters. The native Peasant was to be exterminated. The lands which their forefathers tilled was to be handed over to Scottish Settlers.Maurice Knox, the Agent was an Ulster Scot the prime mover of the Plan. According to local tradition he was a perfect type of scoundrel, who ruled the Irish Estates, Knox made the boast that he would turn the Parish Church into a byre in which to fatten Scottish bullocks.