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1. My Home District Eighty Years Ago (continued)

   

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   the hens roosted over them. The houses were very seldom whitewashed and no house had even one tree growing. Each house had a dirty drain called the "sink" out-side the door into which the rubbish was cast. The people at that time went bare-footed and bare-headed. They had very bad roads to travel on. In some parts of the district there were only paths. A good many people in my townland are over seventy, but that is only considered middle-aged. We think ninety is a respectable age. There are two old people in my townland which are ninety. Their names are - John Gallagher and Catherine Gallagher. Up till recently they could tell very amusing stories, but lately they have forgotten them. They can speak a little Irish, but not book Irish. My townland contains no forts or "lios", but it does contain the bed of "Dermot and Grania". It is situated in land owned by

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   Topics

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

   Language

   English

   Location

   Boghtaduff, Co. Roscommon

   Collector

   Bea Agnes Cassidy

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Boghtaduff, Co. Roscommon

   Informant

   Mrs Cassidy

   Relation

   Parent

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Boghtaduff, Co. Roscommon