Volume: CBÉ 0190
- Date
- 1936
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Archival Reference
The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0190, Page 077
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“There was a travelling man used to go around this county about fifty years ago...”
(continued from previous page)that they would never be any better than fighting. He said that there were Haycocks and Maycocks, Saycocks and Gray cocks, Styles, Steps, Stones, Lanes, Manes, Haines, Paynes and Creans, Halls, Balls, Walls, balls and Dolls.He said that cars would go without horses and jails would be filled with honest people. This was before the Land League time. He also said that the Summers wouldn't be known from the Winters except by the lenght of the days and the leaves on the trees. He was a great man for speaking about Parnell, and he had a rhyme about him. Paddy Hunt travelled all through the Co Wexford and he would start and argument with the most educated man in it, and was able to tell(continues on next page)