$$H44 Part of the Margaret Graham Browne Catalogue$$H
Rathneeny Laghey [Laghy?]
Feb 21st
78
My dear Audly [Audley?]
I must give you a
good scold for not riting [writing?]
you said the reason you did
not write was because we did
not send you news enough
but if we would send you all
the news since you wrote last
I think it would take a news
paper to hold it and not
a letter I think I told you
we had a new agent I can
tell you more about him now
he has noticed the tenanty [tenantry?] for
a half a year of the runing [running?] years
rent on the [1st?] of march the [there?] are
few able or willing to pay it
and if he proceeds in law many
a one will be without a home
considder [consider?] what kind of year
this is when there is so much
land to be sold there was more
land sold since sept. [September?]
last within a mile square of this
than has been for the twenty
years I must also tell you that
John graham bougt [bought?] a farm
[It?] Frank [Kohen?] he paid £190
for ten acres of land so you
see its [it's?] not much cheaper yet
the [they?] have tennant [tenant?] meeting
[meetings?] going on for the landlords
are raising the land and the
people are rebeling [rebelling?] also there
are meeting [meetings?] concerning a rail
road either through the gap
or from castlecauldwell if
it would come that road it
would run through our land
I think I have give [given?] you
news enough I heard there is another
bank closed out there I hope
it has none of your money this
time I had a letter from Mary
yesterday she says Robert was
with till the new year and he
left to go to where he worked
In the summer and she got no
word from him since you ought
to write to him and bring him
home all the boys are unmarrid
[unmarried?] yet here Joe Farrell
is married to Margaret Farrell in
America I hop [hope?] youll [you'll?]
bring none of the old maids of boston
with you I almost forgot tell you about
dan muloy [Mulloy?] his place was sold
for debt twice by the sheriff I dont
[don't?] know what the [they?] will
do they have neither horse nor cow or
any thing to call their own none of
[his?] money is paid yet he paid intrest
[interest?] for it and that is hard to
make [up?] for nothing mother is
lying these days with rheumatic pains
but she is content to have a
home to lie in not like [mrs.?]
mulloy that [does?] not know
what minute she will be
put [out?] it was drink that done
it all with them I hope your
fingers and yourself is no
more at present from your
mother Ellen Brown
(* The owner of these documents has informed us that this
townland is spelt "Rathneeny" and that the older spellings of it
are "Roniney" or "Raneny". In the "Index To The Townlands and
Towns, Parishes and Baronies of Ireland" the spelling is
"Raneany")
