Scoil: Durrow (B.) (uimhir rolla 3517)

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1. The Bishop's Tree (ar lean)

   

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   cut down. The workmen who were Catholics refused to touch the tree and the foreman a Protestant who evidently had no such scruples set to work and knocked out the tree himself. If tradition be true he was killed the same evening by a falling bough.
   The late Canon Carrigan PP; DD; Durrow told the writer that the Bishop in question was no other than Dr O'Dwyer who fought in the [?]siege of Limerick and who afterwards escaped in the guise of a beggarman.
   Canon Carrigan was aware that Dr O'Dwyer was believed to have died in Brussels and to have been buried at midnight in that city. When asked his reasons for identifying the "Bishop" with the Dr O'Dwyer mentioned he gave the following explanation.
   (1) He said that he said in connection with every bishop in Ireland who died during the past three hundred years he could give both the date and place of death except in this case of Dr O'Dwyer and by a process of elimination this particular bishop must have been Dr O'Dwyer.
   (2) He discredited the story that a

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