Laois or Queen's County Ireland Genealogy

Coolrain, County Laois, Ireland. from Lewis Topographical Dictionary 1837

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Coolraine or Coolrain, Offerlane Civil Parish, County Laois, Ireland

COOLRAINE, a village, in the parish of OFFERLANE, barony of UPPER OSSORY, QUEEN'S country and province of LEINSTER, 4 miles (N.W.) from Mountrath, on the road to Roscrea (Co. Tipperary); containing 53 houses and 324 inhabitants.

It is a constabulary police station. A boulting-mill has been erected, and there is a dispensary in the village, near which is the parochial school-house, a neat stone building.

 

 

 

 

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