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1. Old Houses (continued)

   

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   Ned Hunter lived in an old house that is on Hughie Kane's land now. He went away fifty years ago.
   Tom O'Hara's father lived in an old on the top of Tom McElwaine's hill Greaghadusson. There is an old house in Derryham and John McMahon's father lived in it.
   Margaret Phil Terry lived in an old house in Coolnacola and it is in ruins now, and in the same townland Peter Comey lived in a house. He went away and then it fell.
   There is an old house in Greaghadusson and Patrick McCabe Derryham owns it. They left it eight years ago because it was going to fall. There is an old house in Beagh and a man named Henry Ray lived in it a hundred years ago The stoens are carted away now to the new cottahes in Greaghadusson.
   The ruins of Hughie Tom's house is beside Hughie Tom's brae in Beagh and there are the ruins of an old hut a bit below it. They lived there forty or

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   History Edit

   Topics

   1. objects
      1. man-made structures
         1. buildings
            1. residential buildings (~2,723)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Bríghid Ní Rathallaigh

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Greaghadossan, Co. Cavan

   Informant

   Caith Bean Úi Fhloinn

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Lismagiril, Co. Cavan