Scoil: Caisleán Grás, Cloichín an Mhargaidh (uimhir rolla 11288)

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1. Old Story

   

   Roinn Roinn Postáil

   Long ago in South Tipperary, the Protestant Ministers should get a tenth of the harvest from the farmers - both rich and poor. The men who collected the tithes were called PROCTORS. Now it happened one day when one of these Proctors was collecting this Tax he saw two men approaching him and he became suspicious and ran into a nearby house. They followed and shot him on heap of potatoes. The British Military came out from Cahir in search of the two men but failed to find them. As the soldiers and police were passing by a place called "Poul a Tar" near Ballybacon there was a man fencing a gap on his own farm on the roadside, and he was taken away by them to the Ball Alley at Goatenbridge. They held a Court Martial and sentenced him to be hanged. The gallows were erected and the priest sent for, and when he had the prisoner prepared for death he declared that the gallows would not hang him and it didnt. The rope broke and the police and soldiers agreed to let him free. But a local Protestant gentleman on horseback
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   Tras-scríofa ag duine dár meitheal tras-scríbhneoirí deonacha.

   Stair Athraigh

   Teanga

   Béarla

   Bailitheoir

   Christina Looby

   Inscne

   Baineann

   Aois

   13

   Seoladh

   Castlegrace, Co. Tipperary

   Faisnéiseoir

   Denis Looby

   Gaol

   Tuismitheoir

   Inscne

   Fireann

   Aois

   55

   Gairm bheatha

   Farmer (Léirítear teidil na ngairmeacha i mBailiúchán na Scol sa bhunteanga inar cláraíodh iad)

   Seoladh

   Castlegrace, Co. Tipperary