Volume: CBÉ 0485 (Part 1)
- Date
- 1938
- Collector
- Locations
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The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0485, Page 0082
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“I spose ye know the coves up there at Moytura.”
I spose ye know the coves up there at Moytura, Well I spose ye don't know the use, that used ta be made out o' them long ago.
Ye know in an' around the fourteenth an' fifteenth centuries, robbeis war very common people in Ireland, was nothing unusual for them ta be out at any hour o' the day or night.
Well anyway Moytura was a famous haunt for them an' I spose it was on account o' the many rocks an' hidin' places that war in it, that they choose it, beyand an other place. They built a house jusht opposite the(continues on next page)