Volume: CBÉ 0437 (Part 1)

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1. The Time of the "Horse Stabbers"

   

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   There was a great man wan time over land around here - about two miles from here. There was a woman from the Co. Kilkenny married into this place and 'twas the way they grabbed the land on the people that were living there. When these people were put out of the place they didn't know what they could do to be revenged. There was a girl in it and she was in touch with these White Boys - they weren't White Boys, Horse Stabbers they were called. They used go around and kill the horses on the people in the fields. They had some kind of stuff, poison and they used inject it into the horses with

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   Date

   December 1937

   Item type

   Lore

   Language

   English

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Roman script

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   • Mrs Carroll

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   “There was an ould man living in Ballyshannon and he was in bed thirty years...”

   

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   such thing as cut down the grand fence. He was able to tell them about every inch of it. He used spake about the corn and tell them the exact day to go cut it. The same with the turnips he was able to tell them when they'd be fit to thin, and when the spuds would be fit to dig - every mortal thing about the land he was able to tell them. Don't you know well he must have been "going with them" - what other way was he able to tell all that!

   

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