School: Graystown, Killenaule
- Location:
- Graystown, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Robert Hall
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- (1) His appearance fair haired, tall, light in step.
2. His upbringing. reared with the old blind father. Motherless.
3. His power with stone surprises the nearest neighbours.
4. He gets the mason's language.
5. He goes in search of a wife.
6. He builds a hat for a local grandee.
7. He places a corner stone in Graystown Castle.
8. he teaches his wife the mason's language and is tried for it.
9. He builds a castle for the King of Wales
King of the North of England
10. He appears as a "lone" man.
11. His grave and its measurements
12. His hat and its cure
13. "The skin and price of it.
14. All his genius seems to be derived from the fact that he was an old man's som "mothered" by the old blind father. The young mother died at this birth. The boy was reared in the solitude of the island
Rough plan of Island
