School: Dromiskin (B.), Dundalk (roll number 837)
- Location:
- Dromiskin, Co. Louth
- Teacher: Jas. Morgan
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- (continued from previous page)quarry some distance from Lurgangreen where large stones can be got.
The making of this rampart gave great employment to the people of the district. Of course, they did not receive high wages, in fact it is said that each work man got four- pence per day, and for a horse and cart six pence per day. Four- pence or six- pence they could however could buy much more that it could nowadays. A traditional story tells us that in building the rampart a man was killed, and his ghost can still be seen walking along it wheeling a barrow.
After some time this great work was finished and no longer did the tide cross the Commons, but left a quite arable land to take(continues on next page)
