Foot Pads are unsurfaced paths of hard trodden earth as opposed to Foot Paths which would be hard surfaced or Board-Walks which are Wooden boards on short stakes Love Viola [abt 6 miles from Old Killinagh.] >I was vastly amused by the presence of footpads and do not doubt you; >however, I think you meant footpaths.Love from Canada. Joan --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus

Were they not also robbers of a sort ? Margot -----Original Message----- From: Viola Wiggins via Sent: Friday, June 05, 2015 5:15 PM To: Joan Atkinson ; Joan Atkinson ; fermanagh-gold@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: FERMANAGH-GOLD Old Killinagh Churchyard Foot Pads are unsurfaced paths of hard trodden earth as opposed to Foot Paths which would be hard surfaced or Board-Walks which are Wooden boards on short stakes Love Viola [abt 6 miles from Old Killinagh.] >I was vastly amused by the presence of footpads and do not doubt you; >however, I think you meant footpaths.Love from Canada. Joan --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus ================================== https://www.google.ie/ ================================== http://www.irishtimes.com/ancestor/placenames/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to FERMANAGH-GOLD-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Indeed many soldiers etc were led into bogs by people being chased who knew where the footpads were. Where I lived before there was actually a road made across the bog during famine times and my land map showed it cutting across the corner of the field, no sign of it now as it was covered over again but the "road" went across the bog to River Shannon. The bog floods in winter yet one can actually walk across it if they know where the "road" is, go off it and sink 2 or 3 feet. A lot of the old bogs had their safe pads to cross them. On 06/06/2015 01:15, Viola Wiggins via wrote: > Foot Pads are unsurfaced paths of hard trodden earth as opposed to Foot > Paths which would be hard surfaced or Board-Walks which are Wooden boards on > short stakes > Love Viola --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus