Volume: CBÉ 0463 (Part 2)

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   “I have lived to see a great many changes. I am now eighty seven years of age.”

   

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   . Bryan Kennedy owned the corn mill that worked where the present bridge spans the river at Corlack. This mill is spoken of, as the earliest erected mill (on record) in this district.
   Bryan Kennedy was married to a Miss Griffin whose two brothers worked as millers in the said mill. I heard my mother to say, she cooked for us, as children, oat meal that was ground in Bryan Kennedy’s mill.
   Bryan Kennedy was cousin to Pat Kennedy (engineer by profession) who built and owned the mills at Ballymore. Pat Kennedy, engineer (who, after the famine) was employed to engineer the making of the road from Ballymore to Glenamaddy, and Thomas Hurley, of Corlack and his son, Pat Hurley, were employed to engineer the road from Ballymore to Castlerea.”
   “I heard my father say”. He continued, there were people living in houses on both sides of the road from Ballymore to the

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