Volume: CBÉ 0485 (Part 2)

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1. O'Connor Estate during the Famine (continued)

   

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   Tom Carty - made clogs to order, and 'tis well Tom could time the time with his clogs.
   Jamesy Hara - played on the bag pipes, at weddings dances, patterns and fairs.
   Patch Skivington - was a thatcher of houses by trade.
   Martin Mulvihill (Lacky) worked as a labourer for J. OBeirne at Curries.
   My Grandfather and my father cut turf in the bog at Tredub and sold it at the markets held in Williamstown and Castlerea.
   Mick Collins - after a hard day's work taught dancing (in the evenings) to the young boys and girls, with a hay rope on one foot and a straw rope on the other foot he put them through the different steps.
   This poor man, (Mick Collins) - God rest his soul, is long since dead, and his family emigrated to America when the Ocean ticket was £2.10.0.
   At that time Emigrants always carried in their little tin trunks, Holy water

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