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School: Tinahely

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Tinahely, Co. Wicklow
Teacher:
P. Mac Domhnaill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0919, Page 131

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0919, Page 131

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    “Once upon a time a woman was going home from Tinahely.”

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    “A few hundred yards west of Tinahely...”

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    A few hundred yards west of Tinahely is still to be seen the remaining foundation walls and spacious deep cellar rooms of a very large castle supposed to be built by the Earl of Strafford nicknamed Black Tom from his appearance and notoriety of that time. As supposition of the local people states he used to give great banquets to the surrounding resident and when asleep from drinking wine do away with them and take their farms and estates.
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