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   “When the cars will run without horses on that road - a boithrín that ran to Dursey ponit on the mainland past Dursey Island, south-west Cork - the Sasanach will be packing his bag.”

   

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   Comh-aimsirdhithe

   Sean O'Tuama
   Bliain a bheirthe ... 1708
   Bliain a D'eág se.... 1775

   Sagairt Paroiste Chroma.

   1704-1723 Rev.John Cantillon (1)
   1723 -1738 Rev. Edward Higgins (2)
   1738 -1758 Rev Walter Leo (3)
   1758 -1765 Rev Joseph Egan (4)
   1765 -1766 Rev Geoffrey Keating (5)
   1766 - 1779 - Rev Darby Noonan D.D. (6)

   
   Is ait ná fuil tagairt dá laighead i scríbhníbh Sheáin Ui Thuamaigh d'aon tsagart diobh seo ainmnighthiar thall ach amhaín do'd Athair Ualtéar Leo is do'n Chéitinneach.

   
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   road - a boithrín that ran to Dursey point on the mainland past Dursey Island, south-west Cork-the Sasanach will be packing his bag". This from sergeant O'Driscoll, Garda Siochana, Croom, a native of Clonakilty. He explains it by saying that only a narrow boithrín ran there prior to 1917. About that year an attempt was made by the British to work the Allihies copper mines, and a road had to be made for lorries to transport the ore from the mines to the little pier-head some four miles away.

   This was practically the first appearance of a car running without a horse on the particular road and "the prophecy was true, for wasn't he then packing his bag?".

   From his wife Mrs. O'Driscoll, a native of north-east Clare, near Loch Gréine: An old man named Conway used come into our house at home, of an evening. He was a very intelligent old man and had a lot of int-

   

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   “An old man named Conway used come into our house at home, of an evening.”

   

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   An old man named Conway used come into our house at home, of an evening. He was a very intelligent old man and had a lot of int-

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   Topics

   1. genre
      1. poetry
         1. folk poetry (~9,504)

   Language

   English

   Informant

   Mrs O Driscoll

   Gender

   Female