School: St Columba's Abbey, Navan (roll number 882)
- Location:
- Navan, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Br. Abban O' Donoghue
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We do not know what were his fee for letter writing but there is a story told of his refusal of a half-of-whiskey and a sixpence from one old lady and indignantly threw the letter in the fire. - Joe Byrne
Joe Byrne who lived in Kilcarne was an other letter writer (+ lived in) He died in 1903. - About 1850 there lived (an) a man the name of James Mc Cormack of Upper Bothar Allen who was a letter writer. This man lived with his wife and four little girls, the youngest being two months old. They owned a small division of land. They kept a woman and her two daughters in a small room off the kitchen as lodgers. Mr. Mc Cormack used write the letters in the kitchen. Mc Cormack and a few more(continues on next page)