Riobard Ahhh, twas awful times. Is a puck from a cow the same as a kick? And do you know anything of coffin ships leaving from Bantry? Slante ....and thanks for the real stories. Reg...Canada Sent from my iPad > On Oct 24, 2015, at 1:27 PM, Riobard O' Dwyer via <beara@rootsweb.com> wrote: > > See above. Riobard. > >> On 24 October 2015 at 21:25, Riobard O' Dwyer <bearariobard@gmail.com> wrote: >> In the tough times during the days of the Depression in the States, >> some Beara women there had to work in houses for nothing but their >> food in order to stay alive. It reminds me of the tough olden days at >> home in Beara. It was said that during the Famine, a woman called Red >> (haired) Mary drew stones in a basket on her back when the then "New >> Road" from Ardgroom to Eyeries was being made. Workers in the >> construction of that road got just some meal as payment for their >> labour. Times have surely changed. High up in the mountain over the >> beautiful Glenbeg Lake in Ardgreoom, and close to the also beautiful >> Glenmore Lake in Co. Kerry (which is overlooked by the top of the >> well-known and winding Healy Pass on the Cork/Kerry border), there >> lived a family of O'Sullivan Keaghs. These O'Sullivans used bring >> loads of seaweed on their backs from Ardgroom Harbour for almost two >> miles until they reached Glenbeg Lake, and then they had to haul the >> seaweed on their backs for a half a mile up the side of the hill to >> their little potato garden in a place known as Cluher. I walked up the >> side of that hill with Joan's 1st cousin Connie one time to see what >> was on top. There we found the remains of two little "houses" in which >> there lived two families of O'Sullivan Craths (or McGrath). There were >> the remains of a small dried-up stream on the other side of the >> "houses"/cabins, and beside that were the remains of two little potato >> ridges. Three men and five women and children had lived there before >> the Famine. By 1851, the "houses"/cabins were empty, and there was no >> more trace of the poor people themselves. Now, whether they died >> somewhere in the hills, or maybe got to the States in the "coffin >> ships", or maybe drowned and sank to the depths of the Atlantic Ocean >> is open to surmise. And then, back to Claonach, Reentrisk, in the >> Allihies Parish. A woman there, Ellen, was paralysed by a puck from a >> cow. Her son, Con, placed his mother in a big basket and carried her >> on his back over a steep hill to the Copper Mines Hospital. Those were >> some of the times that were in Beara in the many, many days gone by. >> Riobard. > > > > -- > Riobard (O'Dwyer) > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to BEARA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message