Roads

A Road

27th May 1938

In the time of the famine there was a road made in Bollinhoe, in the Barony of Carra. The people who worked on it were very poor and they got bad pay. They lived on yellow meal and on that account the road was called the yellow road. A little traffic goes on it now but it is a bad road.

Road-Making

31st May 1938

There is a road leading from Loughal in the parish of Straid in the Barony of Gallen to Cragagh which is called the Stirabout road because it was made in the time of the famine.
The people who worked on it got a stone of yellow meal every week for their pay.

“INFORMANT: Michael Kennedy, Age 48 Rush Hill, Co. Mayo”

— Dúchas.ie