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'Making straw ropes for Haycock. When rain prevented hay making. Top of Hollow field - near gate under oal tree. This upper portion of the Hollow field about 4 1/2 acres gave us great trouble to dave. It was cut 21st July and not saved till 12th August. It was not much good in the cut! 1. Steward. Woods. 1a. Jim Bracken. 2. T Cash. 3. Billy Guy. 4. Tom Bracken. 5. Johnnie Guy. 6. Frank Dunne'.
'Ethne Biddulph with dogs, Risk and Rogney. Men sowing oats in Cut Wood filed'.
'Sowing oats in Cut Wood field, east of Crescent Wood, the old roots had been stubbed up and this was a reclaim. Steward (W Woods) and Ethne (with Rogney)'.
'By the road side - a little below the Cut on Northside. Self & Vera (with Rogney)'.
'Threshing Barley at Rathrobin. Johnnie Bracken Jnr, Ned Tarleton, Mike Carroll, Jim Bracken, Pat Cash, Michael Dunne, Johnnie Mooney, Eugene Casey, Dennis Owens, James Casey'.
'View of bog view field from mass path entrance SE [south east] corner looking towards Mount Bolus. The oats adjoining is 1st. crop for about 100 years, barley in further pad is 2nd Crop ploughed up in 1912. When 4 fields were combined into one large field about 26 Eng. acres'.
'New road being made to stockyard -not quite finished'.