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1. Sir Thomas Maude (continued)

   

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   to move and after half an hour's delay the horses were taken out and farm horses put in but to no purpose as they would not move either. Eventually the coffin was taken indoors and the hearse sent away. Next day a hearse arrived from Tipperary the coffin was put in and the four horses moved off at once. Late that night three farmers living within a couple of miles of Dundrum visited the vault and on opening the lead coffin found bricks there instead of the mortal remains of Sir Thomas Maude. Tradition has it that the body was put into a cup-board and the place sealed up. Such a cup-board was found bricked up when the Presentation Nuns in Thurles bought the mansion. Strange to relate when the estate was divided among the tenants and the Maudes were gone for ever the crows began to build their nests there again. After the death of Maude the figure of a man's head grew on a tree at the Black-bridge near Dundrum. Tradition has it that the features are exactly like that of Sir Thomas Maude.

   

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   History Edit

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Kitty Ryan

   Gender

   Female

   Informant

   Mrs Tim Ryan

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Golden, Co. Tipperary