School: Rahelty, Dúrlas Éile (roll number 4513)
- Location:
- Rahelty, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Tadhg Mac Domhnaill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0553, Page 152
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- (continued from previous page)path from base to top. It was destroyed in 1800. About 40 yards south of Black Castle was a round building called Crowe's Tower, from a man Crowe who once lived in it. It stood at the town to the right of the road to Cashel and is roofed in and occupied in 1840, walls 7 feet thick Diameter of inside is 18 feet. It was 50 feet high and there were battlements on top of it. There was another castle called Church Castle at the Protestant Church, another at the Moat above mentioned and one on the Dublin Road. The West Gate was called Geata na gCoileach, locally called the gate of the old woman. The figure of an old woman was chiselled on a stone in one of its sides. It is also said that the 5 Castles were pulled down in Thurles for the building of a Court House. To the right of the Cashel Road a little further on from the Round Castle is a burial ground called(continues on next page)
