In 1814 the people feared an invasion by Napoleon so they made the broad road to have a rightaway from Dublin to Enniskillen.

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Long an Inbhair  [duchas:5066083]

In 1814 the people feared an invasion by Napoleon so they made the broad road to have a rightaway from Dublin to Enniskillen. A staff of engineers set it to the people living along it and it was made in four months, and the stones were drawn to it with hand barrows. Philip Brady Drumollard had the contract of three miles of it at the rate  of £1 a perch. At that time the people working on the roads used eat a large quantity of potatoes and buttermilk in the morning, and nothing else till they would come  home that evening. When the road was made there used go a luggage coach drawn by eight horses, and as the land around the road was boggy when the coach used be going at night it would shake the delph on the dressers in the houses near the road, and that was all the way the people knew the time to got to bed. At Lavey and Virginia there were stables where the coach horses used be changed and at each stable there was a man paid for cleaning and brushing the horses.



Collected by Thoomas Nulty  Drumfomina from Patrick Byrd Drumfomina, Billis, Virginia aged  66 years    4/7/1938