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   My home is in the townland of Drumlayne, parish of Moybologue and Barony of Nobber.
   There are only ten people in the townland.
   The family name most common around here is Smyth.
   About half the cottages and houses are thatched and half slated.
   The name of the townland, Drumlayne, is Irish and it means a high ridge.
   There is only one person living on this townland over seventy. She is eighty-six and is my aunt.
   There are many houses gone altogether but few in ruins. It is because most of the people went to America or to Dublin and the houses decayed away.
   The land in heavy, stiff, and hilly. There are plenty of woods growing on Drumlayne.
   There are two rivers surrounding Drumlayne, it is cut into a rough V shape.
   There is a sink hole in one of the rivers that runs between two very high hedges. There the people used to make poteen.
   They had a big cave dug into the side of the ditch and there they had a boiler boiling and a tube running from it and the steam ran through the tube. When the steam came to a certain point the water of the river ran over it and it turned to poteen. A gallon (i.e.) a can

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   Topics

   1. place-space-environment
      1. local lore, place-lore (~10,595)

   Language

   English

   Location

   Drumlayne, Co. Meath

   Collector

   Olive Mc Whirter

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Drumlayne, Co. Meath

   Informant

   Mr R. Mc Whirter

   Relation

   Parent

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Drumlayne, Co. Meath