School: Caiseal (roll number 16085)

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1. The Local Roads (continued)

   

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   Relieving Officer and get a ticket from a man there and ands they would get work.
   The pay they got was three or four stones of yellow meal a week. Some got five shillings a week. The people who got money were people who had children. She does not remember to see the road from Swinford to Kilkelly but she said it was made in the year 1848. But she said before it was made a man was going the way in the middle of the day and it turned dark he heard horses coming behind. He stood to let them pass. There was a man riding on one of them. The man asked him where he was going to. He told him that he was going to earn some money. He told him to come with him and he would get a lot of money. He went with

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   Topics

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

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Sabina Burke

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Derryronan, Co. Mayo

   Informant

   Mrs Julia Salmon

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Derryronan, Co. Mayo