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School: Ráth Dubh, An Bhlárna (roll number 8393)

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Rathduff, Co. Cork
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D. Ó Súilleabháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0388, Page 286

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    It is said that long ago a fight between the Jacobites and the Williamites, took place at Sixmilewater Cross.
    The local people say that Cromwell was once a shoemaker Tradition say that one day as he was journing through England on a horse he met a gipsy who told him that the horse he was riding would kill him. So Cromwell immediately shot the horse and threw him on the roadside.
    Some time after a tinker passed that way and say the bones of the horse. He made the a handle for a razor from one of the bones, and it is said that
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. agents (~1)
      1. historical persons (~5,068)
        1. Cromwell (~315)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Ann Murphy
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Longstone, Co. Cork
    Informant
    Mr Patrick Murphy
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    62
    Address
    Longstone, Co. Cork