Volume: CBÉ 0481 (Part 1)

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1. Whelans of Loughnageer (continued)

   

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   better for him be going, in case they might attack to eat the ould man.

   

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   “Fellows used get cruel hardship long ago...”

   

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   Fellows used get cruel hardship long ago towards now. I remember fellows from her, they used have to work from here to Horetown and be in it at 6 oclock in the morning and work hard til 6 or 7 at night and walk home again and do that the six days of the week, for three shillings a week.

   

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3. Fox and Her Young

   

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   I was often watching a fox down there near that knock below, and she used bring the young wans out and across to Roches of Shanoule, they used go off in single file. I saw 'em another evening and the young wans ferreting , and the ould wan outside ready to kill the rabbits when they'd come out. The young wans would go into the burrows and the ould wan would nab the rabbit coming out.

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   Date

   Aibreán 1938

   Item type

   Lore

   Language

   Béarla

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Roman script

   Informant

   • John Carroll