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School: Gabhailín (Golden), Cashel (roll number 7820)

Location:
Golden, Co. Tipperary
Teacher:
Tomás Mac Uidhir
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    A Legend
    Three miles from Golden there is a castle of which a strange story is told. One day while a man was cutting firing in a fort near the castle a bough hit him near the eye and he got blood-poisoned. The blood-poison caused his death because he could not be cured.
    It was said that a notorious man called Browne lived in the castle. This man was a landlord. One day while he was going to a neighbouring cottage collecting the "tithe" he was shot in the fort by an unknown man.
    This man succeeded in escaping the police and he got to America where
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. place-space-environment
      1. land management (~4,110)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Denis Blake
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Cloghleigh, Co. Tipperary
    Informant
    John Kavanagh
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    47
    Address
    Cloghleigh, Co. Tipperary