Volume: CBÉ 0407 (Part 2)

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1. Siabhra with Red Box on His Back (continued)

   

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   "Oh, it's many a féirín a man took out of the same forts & cnocán's (cnocán, common noun in general use 'I saw her going over by the cnocán') Tis very very wrong to meddle with them.
   "[?] (ie Tim Brian) cut bushes in Cnoc na staneela and the next day he was breaking stones & a stone flew and knocked the eye out of his head.
   [Robbin Hammersly], one of the strongest men in Ireland drew a couple of loads of gravel out of the same cnocán & you all know what happened him. He was only about 40 years of age. He got some kind of a [disease?] and took to the bed. He was dead in 2 years time (1928)
   You need not go past the two young men who died in Doon last year (1936) T.B. and
   M.R.
   and [Quirke of Drumwood] Q. cleared a lios that was bounding the two farms. They cut every bramble that was on it & levelled it to the ground as far as they were able. They were both in their graves within six months. [Age:- 35-44]
   Quirke did the same & left a widow & eight children behind him. And the 3 men I have mentioned were the most industrious [tear-abouts], digging & [delving] late & early but you see they brought the féirín from meddling with the

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   History Edit

   Date

   22 October 1937

   Item type

   Lore

   Language

   English

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Roman script

   Informant

   • Seosamh Hammersley