School: Camross, Mountrath (roll number 15933)
- Location:
- Camross, Co. Laois
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Heifearnáin
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“There was once a man living in the Pike before motor-cars , or trains, or buses were running.”
(continued from previous page)of holly. The shafts were two pieces of young ash. The wheels were solid joints cut out of a beech tree. When the cart was finished he would drive it back to Borris-in-Ossory and any goods that were going to Dublin. It took him three days to go to Dublin. At night he would pull into some field and at daylight he would continue his journey. When he reached the city he sold the timber of the cart for firewood. It would take him the same time to come home on horseback