Volume: CBÉ 0460 (Part 2)
- Date
- 1938
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The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0460, Page 0248
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- (Recorded from Johnny Carroll, Assegart, Foulksmills)Long ago when I was young I worked in Hilltown there at Ballymitty at Boxwel'ls place. I was a kind of a gamekeeper there, I'd have to mind the rabbits and hares and pheasants and so on and let no wan pooch there. Boxwell used invite some friends for a week's shooting every year, and before that no wan would be let shoot or snare there. But when they'd be after their week's shooting I had liberty to snare away on it.
There was wan field there, and there was an ould ráth in it wan time. It wasn't there when I was in it for it was levelled years before it. But you could see the sign of it in the field. The sign of it would stay in a place forever.
Often in the morning when I'd be passing out with the horses I'd set a snare here and there wherever I'd see a good run, and then when I'd be going out after dinner I'd set a few more. Of course I'd have to do it on the quiet. If I was seen it wouldn't do, and you couldn't trust wan of the(continues on next page)