Volume: CBÉ 0407 (Part 1)
- Date
- 1937
- Collector
- Locations
Archival Reference
The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0407, Page 0072
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- (continued from previous page)"8 am till 6 p.m. with dinner hour 1-2 or 8a.m. till dark during the short days. I remember Johnny Cosgrove came in early one Friday morning and addressed my father thus: "You gave me a sovereign last night sir, in place of a half-sovereign." That man had a cabin, 3 acres of ground and 12 little children. Are the labourers equally honest to-day?"
- As children we dug up in the garden a bayonet, hollowground and in good state of preservation. One of the working-men, John Heydon, remarked that it must have belonged to the soldier "that was burried here the time of the Fenians. "Although we questioned the father closely he would give us no information. I suppose his Fenian oath was sacred and "times were not too safe." We knew by his reticence that the story was true. We drove the bayonet, point downwards into the floor at the furnace-chamber to the west at the big glass house. I dare say it is there still.
(Scrap) "A Fenian leader escaped from 5 police and broke their carbines against Fenagh Bridge" [How we wondered, as children, what carbines were!]
My mother, while staying with an aunt in Oak Park, seat the the RT Hon. Henry Bruen, often saw the Fenians drilling in the "Deer Park" by moonlight, 1866-7.
