Volume: CBÉ 0460 (Part 2)

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1. Béaloideas ó Pharóiste Chluain Gaoin (Clongeen)

   

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   (Recorded from Johnny Carroll, Assegart, Foulksmills)

   Long ago when I was young I worked in Hilltown there at Ballymitty at Boxwel'ls place. I was a kind of a gamekeeper there, I'd have to mind the rabbits and hares and pheasants and so on and let no wan pooch there. Boxwell used invite some friends for a week's shooting every year, and before that no wan would be let shoot or snare there. But when they'd be after their week's shooting I had liberty to snare away on it.
   There was wan field there, and there was an ould ráth in it wan time. It wasn't there when I was in it for it was levelled years before it. But you could see the sign of it in the field. The sign of it would stay in a place forever.
   Often in the morning when I'd be passing out with the horses I'd set a snare here and there wherever I'd see a good run, and then when I'd be going out after dinner I'd set a few more. Of course I'd have to do it on the quiet. If I was seen it wouldn't do, and you couldn't trust wan of the

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   History Edit

   Date

   Eanáir 1938

   Item type

   Lore

   Language

   Béarla

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Gaelic script

   Informant

   • John Carroll