REFERENCES
- Isaac Weld, Statistical Survey of County Roscommon (Dublin, 1832), p. 549.
- Ruth Delaney, The Grand Canal of Ireland (David & Charles, Newtown Abbot, 1973), abstract from pp. 26–28.
- Delaney, op. cit., p. 197.
- Fifth Annual Report, King’s County Committee for Agricultural & Technical Instruction, 1907.
- Ireland is divided administratively into some 6o,000 townlands, each of which has a name and which can vary in area from about an acre to as much as 7,000 acres (2,800 hectares). See A. Room, A Dictionary of Irish Place-Names (Appletree Press, Belfast, 1988), Appendix p. 129.
- Ordnance Survey Field Name Books (1837–40), Vol. 1, p. 303 and Appendix to Book 1, Notes i.
- Munna: Irish muinne, variant of buinne = a ridge.
- Anne O’Dowd, Meitheal (Comhairle Bhéaloideas Eireann, Dublin, 1981).
- Spit: the depth a spade goes in digging. Various dialects. See Halliwell: A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words (Roudedge & Sons Ltd, London, 1904).
- Hack: the place on which bricks newly made are arranged to dry. Halliwell, op. cit.
- In rural Ireland the word ‘cottageߣ is applied exdusively to a dwelling-house built for a farm worker according to the Labourers’ Acts of 1883 and 1885. In County Wexford they are often called ‘Parnell cottages’, as Parnell was instrumental in bringing them into being. A farmer’s dwelling, no matter how humble or small, is never referred to as a cottage.
- From Duffy Bros. Building Contractors A/C Book (Tullamore, Co. Offaly), in the County Library, Tullamore: ‘Item: March 13 (1933) By Bricks 34,000 (T. Donlon) £40-16s.’