Coolbanagher School House

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Wish that we had thought to to a book - we have a huge amount of info accrued....maybe later!  Our church in Coolbanagher, and glebe-house will be 225 yrs and the old schoolhouse will be 200 yrs.  It's amazing the things that people have in their attics!

Thanks for the idea

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Laois History (Portlaoise Library)
Little bits to add to Coolbanagher history.

The plain included all the parish of Coolbanagher " Cuil Bendchuir a Muig Reicheat", where, as we are told, Ogengus commenced the compiling of his Martyrology- as well as Ardea, a modern parish formerly part of Coolbanagher, and so constituted the western half of the barony of Portnahinch.

To the south-west, and probably on the Clanmalire-Irry border were Coolbanagher and Killimy granted to Robert Harpole in 1564, regranted in 1578, and held in 1622 by his second son George. Coolbanagher from the evidence of the 1563 map appears uncultvativated and Killimy may have been situated on the edge of the wood covering much of Emo Park.

Schoolmasters Huguenots in Portarlington;
Etienne Durand, also bootmaker
Louis Buliod, also shopkeeper-church elder
Guillaume Macarel,  also parish clerk.

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Thank you very much for your post, much appreciated.  There is ruin of St. Peter's Church about a mile away which was burnt in 1779.  May have been a monastic settlement around?  We have collated a large amount of history now from 1782 on the new church of St. John's, designed by James Gandon and completed in 1785.  The school house was completed in 1810.  From church records we are gradually building info on both and contacts from previous rectors families - only 2 of the teachers though - even though we know many of their names.  So your help is gratefully received.

Good wishes,

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