Volume: CBÉ 0485 (Part 1)
- Date
- 1938
- Collector
- Locations
Archival Reference
The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0485, Page 0174
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“The evictions in Carrowkeel war wan o' the big events in this disthrict long 'go.”
(continued from previous page)a man who lived near Ballinafad, that got the job, an' he happened to be a good man, that no wan could ever find any fault o'.
However he had only the job for wan week, when he was murdhered, an' him sthartin out to Shligo early wan mornin'.
There was several o' the local tenents suspected o' havin' a hand in the murdher, but the suspicions war wrong, an it was not found out for yhears afther who the murdherer was, an' be that time he was dead. Dodds Lavins Lyons's, an' several o' the local families war among those evicted on suspicion.
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“In oulden times beggars war very plentiful in this disthricht...”
In oulden times beggars war very plentiful in this disthrict, there war several women, but there war a few men is well, an' the men principally made their livin, on getherin rags an' feathers, an' skins, an' so forth. Some o' the besht known around here ushed to come to the cross roads o' Baldwin, on appointed days, an' they made their collection there, sometimes thould women ushed ta bring their geese along wit them an' the beggar men 'id pluck them, an' give them something for the feathers, it mightn't be always money maybe some useful article, that they'd give them, an(continues on next page)