School: Clochar na Toirbhirte, Fethard (roll number 8903)
- Location:
- Fethard, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Sr M. Agatha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0557, Page 432
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- (continued from previous page)Dunboyne. According to local tradition, a certain Bishop Tynan is said to have been thrown headlong from the turrets, into a stream which flows adjacent to the castle. His blood still marks the white stones, which are still to be seen in the stream. No credence is claimed for the above stories beyond what the traditional evidence may warrant.
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(Photo Sheelah-na-Gig, Augustinian Abbey Grounds)
This peculiar-looking piece of figure-carving is inserted in one of the walls bounding the AUGUSTINIAN ABBEY GROUNDS. What it is intended to represent is truly a puzzle, the solution of which has not yet been discovered. Some say that it comes down from Pagan times, and represents a divinity much in favour with the people of those remote days. There is another figure, almost a twin-brother to this, to be seen a couple of miles away at KILTINAN CASTLE.
