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1. The Tunnel Hill

   

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   There is a Tunnel beside my home, there is a railway going through it. It was made 90 years ago. My Grand-father was at the making of it. They cut the Tunnel with spades and picks. My Grand-father was the only man in my district to have a cart and a horse. He got the job of carting the clay and stones to Tuneymore Lough. The stuff which was cut away was dumped near Tuneymore Castle, where there was a lake which is now only marsh because it has been drained. There were 7 weeks of frost at the time and they had to stop working at it they could not even get spades or picks into the ground. My father says there was a man killed off a scaffold he was wheeling a barrow of stones and he fell 30 feet and broke his neck. The height of it now is about 90 feet. They were making the Tunnel for two years. It is not really a tunnel because it is open at the top.

   

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   1. earraí
      1. struchtúir de dhéantús an duine
         1. infreastruchtúr poiblí
            1. bóithre (~2,778)

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   English

   Collector

   Maud Hartley

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Drumleny, Co. an Chabháin

2. The Tunnel Hill

   

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   In 1921 the train was stopped in the tunnel. There was a train going with goods from Belfast to Crossdoney at 10 o'clock at night, there was Raiders beside the tunnel they put on a red light and the train and put the goods all out. The

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   Language

   English

   Collector

   Maud Hartely

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Drumleny, Co. an Chabháin