School: Díseart, Droichead Átha (roll number 1434)

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1. Local Roads (continued)

   

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   The School to Keenan's Cross.
   The Clonmore road begins at Keenan's & ends at Togher.
   The Annagassan road begins at Keenan's or Togher, and leads to Annagassan.
   The Dunleer road begins at Keenan's
   There is a lane that begins on Clonmore road and it used lead to houses.
   It was a road one time, but it is only a lane now, and it would bring to Annagassan across fields.

   

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2. Local Roads

   

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   Crab road leads to Dysart road. The Milltown road begins at Kilally road, & it leads to the big road.
   Dysart road begins at Reynold's Cross
   The old road begins at the Gallagh cross and ends at the old lane.
   Town road begins at Thornogs & ends at Milltown.
   Mona Levins was told by her G mother (90) that the people who worked on the roads during the famine got food but no wages. I have also heard from John Campbell Rath that they were only paid eightpence. They got no food & had to work from six in the morning to 8 at night.

   

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   Topics

   1. objects
      1. man-made structures
         1. public infrastructure
            1. roads (~2,778)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Donal Butterly

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Thornogs, Co. Louth