Word: muckross
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Century the Picts. shrinking into their lairs from the wind that blows off the Firth of Tay from the North Sea, called the place Kilrymont or Muckross. Later St. Regulus, the Bishop of Patras in Achaea, was guided thither bearing the relics of St. Andrew. Angus. King of the Picts, gave the prelate a duney tract known as the Boar Chase, and the pious Bishop promptly changed its name to St. Andrews. For centuries wind-bitten shepherds had knocked bits of stone about the hummocks with crooked staves in a dour and solitary game called golf, but they...
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