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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   “Big Tree”. There was also a village in Kearns’s Park. But the Scotch and English Settlers came and settled on the land from which the poor Irish were evicted by their Protestant Landlord. The foundations of the old houses were cleared away.
   The poor evicted Irish families moved into the bogs where they built themselves huts – many of them died during the famine, or went to America on the Free Immigration”.
   “Even in my own day”, he said, “I saw a forge worked by a Black Smith, named Gannon, who lived with his two sisters – Peter Groarke's house – a house owned by a man named Fury. Fury killed bullock calves – buying the bullock calf for a few shillings and sold veal at a profit to the Country people.
   I was present when Fury came one day to Corlack to buy a fine bullock…

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