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The
Clock Tower on the Crescent was erected, in Memory of
Lawrence Harman King -Harman who died 2nd of September
1875, by the tenants of the Boyle and Rockingham Estate
part of the Rockingham now being Lough Key Forest Park.
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A
Clock was placed in the monument in memory of Dame Frances
Agnes Stafford and her son Edward, and later a new clock
was installed in Memory of Gerald F. Dodd, T.C., M.C.C.,
P.C., 1927-1978, first President of Boyle Chambers of Commerce.
Facing
south towards the pleasant Curve of the Crescent houses,
on your left in front of the Courthouse is one of the C.S.P.C.A.
troughs. In the 19th century two drinking troughs for animals
were donated to Boyle by the Canadian Society for the Prevention
of Cruelty to Animals. They placed them in many market towns
where facilities for animals were found to be inadequate.
On the Courthouse wall the 50th anniversary of the 1916
Rising is commemorated by a plaque of Padraic Pearce, leader
of the Rising and an engraved slab tells of the election
of George Noble Count Plunkett, as Sinn Fein M.P. for the
North Roscommon in 1917. According to the Charter granted
by James 1 in 1613, Boyle was a corporate town and a 'Session
House' carried out the duties we associate with a Courthouse.
A Court of Record was presided over by a Borough Master,
the Petty Sessions by the County Magistrate and an enrobed
judge and his military escort came for Quarter Session.
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