Volume: CBÉ 0481 (Part 1)

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   and look for a settlement, and in the meantime you need pay no rent."
   Begob I did what he told me; and I was three years in the land court before the thing was settled; and I got the place for £8 a year after that - just half of what I was paying. I pulled up again anyhow, and we cut about 400 faggots out of this place and cut heath and made land out of it.
   Then there was a contract going for the road from Cullenstown to Taghmon and begob I tendered £20 for it & I got it, then I got the Shanoule road and I had £15 for that. I gathered all the stones about the land here, and Mc Cabes of Ballyvergin gave me what stones I wanted out of the quarry. I held that contract for 15 years anyhow, and I never got cut in the money nor a damn hayport.
   I used set some of the land that time but you'd have to set it in the

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   History Edit

   Date

   April 1938

   Item type

   Lore

   Language

   English

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Roman script

   Informant

   • John Carroll