Volume: CBÉ 0407 (Part 2)
- Date
- 1937
- Collector
- Location
Archival Reference
The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0407, Page 0261
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“I remember it well: one Christmas night...”
(continued from previous page)in America who said he knew Mickey Roche and that he was from Antrim(!). Mickey used to work around here. He always said haymaking was all right only for the piking and the rolling, in the days when they had no machinery".
- I cannot leave Sronell or pass from Damer without mentioning Liam Dall, as he is commonly called i.e. 'Liam Dall O Heffernan of Sronell'. In the two articles wh I published in the "Irish Press" 1935 ( 15/ Aug I think and later) I incorporated all the material wh. I collected at
Sronell some years previously. [Will it be necessary for me to rewrite these notes or to re - collect for the Commission?]The burning question occupying our attention: Was he born born? Or did he spend many years on the Continent as a clerical student? If so, what deprived him of his eye-sight?
An examination of documents (published in MSS) prove the Heffernans were very strongly entrenched in the lands of Sronell immediately before the day of Cromwell. - [See Illustrated article "Odd Corners in History", Sunday Independent of about six months ago]I always heard him called the CUT Quinlan in Doon but the people around here ( three miles nearer to his native place wh is only six miles from here) insist that his nick-name was CUD
