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'My father was adjusting a plough behind the tractor when it jerked and the middle finger of his right hand was severed'
My father and his brothers had purchased the Deerpark Farm from Lord Massareeue - it must have been around 1939 - and we children used to love going to Antrim and roaming free there. Unfortunately I have one unhappy memory among all the happy…
'The farm was an excellent school of practical learning '
Clondaliever, the townsland where I was born in 1941, is in north Westmeath. It is the place where the three parishes of Collinstown, Taughmon and Delvin meet. As most facilities in rural Ireland were to be found at the centre of a parish, the…
Tags: Farm, father, horse and cart, poverty, tractor