There was a very old woman named Margaret Norton who lived alone in a very small mud wall cabin in Brownstown Ballyboughal. She kept a cat and a billy goat in a small cot attached to the cabin and she lived by the proceeds of the billy goat and on the kindness of the neighbours. At that time the place belonged to Mrs Savage of Knightstow(n.) Now Mr McCulloch Ballyboughal owns it. It is about fifty years ago since Margaret Norton lived there. She took a seizure and fell into the fire and was burned. Some of the neighbours found her. There was an inquest on her and the neighbours made a collection and buried her. A big fire took place in Mr Henry Baker'(s) farmyard in 1930. A threshing mill belonging to Captain Osborne stood in the yard ready to work. The night before the threshing the mill went on fire, nobody knew how. The neighbours collected to put out the fire but did not succeed. All the corn and hay ricks were burnt to ashes, but the sheds and dwelling house were saved. At Oldtown, County Dublin a thatchedMichael Killegar