Volume: CBÉ 0485 (Part 1)

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   “I spose ye know the coves up there at Moytura.”

   

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   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

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   History Edit

   Date

   20 March 1938

   Item type

   Lore

   Language

   English

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Roman script

   Informant

   • Seán Ó Moistin