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'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'.
'With Reaper Binder in Bog View field cutting barley and oats. Two years ago there were 4 fields now made into one large one. The barley being 2nd crops where oats were last year. The oats 1st. crop for about 100 years.
Billy Guy (holding reins), William Woods (steward), Mike Guy (the driver) and the work horses (mares) Polly, Pella and Pansy'.
'Threshing Barley Rathrobin. Pat Cummerton, Johnnie Bracken Jnr, Ned Tarleton, Jim Bracken, Pat Cash, Johnnie Moony, Michael Dunne, Mike Carroll, Eugene Casey, Denis Owens, Jim Casey. Tom Bracken'.
'Threshing the Barley, The Engine at work (Sutherland's). Hutchinson, Paul - stoking, Frank Dunne, Casey, D. Owens, Tim Gorman, Johnnie Mahon'.
'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'.