School: Johnstown (roll number 877)
- Location:
- Johnstown, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Miss H.C. Hickie
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0687, Page 113
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“Rich Farmers around Oldtown and Kilcairne employed 50 labourers for harvesting.”
Rich farmers around Oldtown and Kilcairne employed 50 labourers for harvesting. These labourers walked from Connaught to Meath.
When the days work was over they used to meet at some crossroad and dance to the music of flutes and fiddles until past midnight.
Corn was the great crop then.
Wages 1/6 1/8 per day.
Food porridge potatoes bread and milk.
In one house in Oldtown the maids started baking bread for the harvesters on July 1st.
The corn was threshed with flails and carted to Drogheda, shipped to England.He remembers great markets in Navan much fowl rearing and butter making and many butchers doing a roaring trade in temporary stalls erected on the public square.
The Murphys of Kilearne Park now owned by Mrs Meagher had a distillary in Navan on the site of the present Co. Council yards Academy St. Navan.
These Murphys are held in execreaton by the(continues on next page)