Volume: CBÉ 0190

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   “There is a man living in Mayglas by the name of Thomas Barnwell.”

   

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   seven at night. He had fifteen children to support. His wife had to work all day also and then when she would come home at night tired and hungry after a hard days work there would be fifteen children waiting for her, and it is often she worked allnight mending and baking for the next day. Sometimes she would have to stop at the house she was working in and do some spinning or yarning.
   The farmer whom Thomas Barnwell worked with was a very well off man. He knew every bush and every "sceac" on the farm. When the workman would come in at night he would ask him was he got as far as the "sceac" on the corner or some-thing like that.

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   History Edit

   Date

   15 Bealtaine 1936

   Item type

   Lore

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Roman script

   Informant

   • Tomás Barnwell