Volume: CBÉ 0406 (Part 2)
- Date
- 1937
- Collector
- Location
Archival Reference
The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0406, Page 0137
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“There was a woman in Pound Lane and she had a very big family... ”
This section is available for transcription by volunteers.- Alice Howard was telling me that she worked for six year in a farmer's house. At that time this butter used be taken from the people all over the place with the piseógs. There was an auld man in this house and he would stay up at night by the fire when all the rest would be gone to bed. He was a light sleeper.
When they were going to bed Alice noticed that there was no spring water inside. So she said she'd [?] down to the well for a bucket of it. But the woan of the house woudn't let her. She said 'twould do in the morning. So they all(continues on next page)
