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Now named O'Connor Square.

maps.app.goo.gl/BDVWjofr4WwfkJZg7?g_st=ac

And here's a link to 300 years of it's history.

offalyhistoryblog.com/2022/08/17/oconnor-square-tullamore...

“CHARLEVILLE SQUARE,
North and East Sides.
View from
your left to right—(1) Hibernian Bank at corner of Bridge Street,
whose Manager is Mr. J. Dunne; (2) Messrs T. P. & R. Goodbody's Hardware Store; (8) 'Town House, with Clock and Ttrret; (1) Mrs. C. Woods' ; (5) Mr.
0. Wyer's; (6) Mr HI. T. Love's old Post Ofice behind lamp; (7) Mr J. Tarleton's.
Parts of Town House are used as Loan Bank and Reading Room, and on Sunday evenings in the winter months Divine Service is held in the upper room by Dean Craig's congregation.
Photo from High Street footpath, near old R.I.C. Barracks, now occupied by Mr. R. H. Poole as Cycle Depot.”

offalyhistoryblog.com/2023/11/22/2-the-making-of-oconnor-...

Mike Grimes Thanks Mike! New name added above...

National Library of Ireland on The Commons Thank you for the clock!
11:21

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The catalogue says Rathdowney, Co. Laois

"Thomas Prior (1680 – 21 October 1751) was an Irish author, known as the founder of the Royal Dublin Society."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Prior

catalogue.nli.ie/Record/vtls000313113

Confirmed by the dib:
Prior, Thomas (1681–1751), founder of the Dublin Society and philanthropist, was born in Garrison House, Rathdowney, Queen's Co. (Laois)

www.dib.ie/biography/prior-thomas-a7508

There is a townland called Garrison near Erril, not a million miles west of Rathdowney, with just one house on the historic maps.

www.logainm.ie/en/28727

There is still a farm and farm buildings here, I can't tell if this house is still standing in some form: maps.app.goo.gl/rCErac7aHLivgaJEA

It's too late for the marriage records, they are only available to 1944.

Charles Gleeson was born in 1918, so he is more likely the groom. Here are his parents in the 1911 census.

28 August 1946 was a Wednesday ...

When will it be my turn?

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