School: Bansha (B.) (roll number 11964)

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1. A Hidden Treasure (continued)

   

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   in good condition. It is very seldom that people get gold in places like this and when they do they do not live long. If anybody visited it even nowadays they would be liable to meet with the wicked woman.

   

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2. Story of the Rock of Cashel

   

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   A legend says that the Rock of Cashel was a mouthful brought by Satan from the Devils Bit Mountains in the north- west of Templemore. It is situated in one of the richest districts in Ireland. It is the grandest and most ancient building in Co. Tipperary. The ruins though windowless and roofless and greatly shattered still stand to almost their original height. Across the south-east the Galtees raise their peaks to about three thousand feet high. Long ago it was the capital of Munster and the seat of the high-kings. When St. Patrick, on his mission to the south about the year 450 A.D. reached Cashel the ruling king was Angus. It is said also that when Patrick was baptizing Angus the spike of the spear went through the kings

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   Language

   English

   Collector

   John O' Dwyer

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Cloonfinglass, Co. Tipperary