School: Ballycastle Boys' (roll number 14290)

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1. Old Roads (continued)

   

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   In this neighbourhood one wide "green" road crosses the fields from Ballycastle to Ballinglen where it meets the public. Then it continues towards the river across which stepping stones were placed ages ago and are still there. From thence on through the fields of Bail an Phortaigh till it joins another old road leading from Killenna and then on to Ballinkinlettera where it meets a road which leads to Alderrig and so on. It is along these old roads that one sometimes sees little mounds and monuments telling of the woeful tragedy of the famine and it was in the years immediately after-wards that our present roads began to be made, in the way of relief works for the people who had land to till. A small quantity of Indian meal was the pay a man was the pay a man received and women and boys received a still smaller quantity about a pint.

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   History Edit

   Topics

   1. objects
      1. man-made structures
         1. public infrastructure
            1. roads (~2,778)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   John Lenihan

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Ballycastle, Co. Mayo

   Informant

   Mrs Polke

   Gender

   Female

   Age

   63

   Address

   Ballinglen, Co. Mayo