Volume: CBÉ 0189
- Date
- 1935
- Collector
- Locations
Archival Reference
The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0189, Page 196
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- Our people, the Moores, lived where Fitzgeralds live now. They kept a public house there.
They owed a year's rent to the landlord - Howlin was the landlord's name. They gathered the money together anyway, and went to pay the landlord but he refused to accept it. The place was gone. He had sold the place behind their backs to another party.
Well, our people refused to leave the house. What did Howlin do, but got a grey mare he had and fixed a rope around the chimney and yoked the mare to it, and pulled the chimney down on top of them. It was a low thatched house at that time.
Well, next day, that mare was in a field up there above the bank (where the Nat. Bank is) and there's a big iron gate there. 'tis the same gate is there to this day. The mare went mad in the field and she jumped(continues on next page)
