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(continues on next page)- Collector
- Denis Blake
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cloghleigh, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- John Kavanagh
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 47
- Address
- Cloghleigh, Co. Tipperary