School: Ballycastle Boys' (roll number 14290)

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1. Old Roads

   

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   There are old roads all aroung the country which are used only when some pedisterian takes "a short cut" which means going by an old road across fields, hills, and valleys instead of going the longer way by the public road. In dry weather these old roads are very pleasant to walk upon being soft and green and only in very few places have become overgrown with heather or ferns. There are very wide roads and also very narrow roads. The latter are called bóthríns which means little or small road and are just passages leading from the wide roads to houses and field etc.
   There were resting places along those roads for in those days poor people for the most part carried loads on their backs or in large ciseáns. The roads always ran by good clean streams and spring wells so that weary travellers were sure of refreshment.

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   History Edit

   Topics

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

   Language

   English

   Collector

   John Lenihan

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Ballycastle, Co. Mayo

   Informant

   Mrs Polke

   Gender

   Female

   Age

   63

   Address

   Ballinglen, Co. Mayo