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   “Long ago the tide used to come from Kilmore Quay to Baldwinstown.”

   

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   for there is a house not far from Baldwinstown called Strand house and that same name is on this house this long time. Another sign is sand. The fields are very sandy in that locality and often times ploughmen plough up sea shells.

   There is a castle in Ballyteige, Ballyteige castle, and people by the name of Whitty lived in it in the seventeenth century. Walter Whitty was the last that lived in it. He used to go in a boat from Ballyteigue to Ballymager to see a girl. That was the time the tide used to come in to Balwinstown. Walter Whitty was going with this girl for a long time and it was arranged that they would be married in a short

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   History Edit

   Date

   1 May 1936

   Item type

   Lore

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Roman script

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