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School: Gabhailín (Golden), Cashel (roll number 7820)

Location:
Golden, Co. Tipperary
Teacher:
Tomás Mac Uidhir
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    Mantle Hill and Monks Cell
    We know very little about Mantle Hill before it became an estate Doubtless that the farmers who lived there lived in all the comforts that their little holdings could afford them.
    This happiness continued until the miserable day of the evictions which threw these fifty farmers houseless and homeless on the road, "to starve in the midst of plenty.
    We do not know whether it was an estate when Cromwell came or not but we are sure it was an estate during the famine. Cromwell's army encamped for a
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. place-space-environment
      1. land management (~4,110)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Dena Blake
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    Joseph Blake
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    20
    Address
    Golden, Co. Tipperary