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'The delivery of turf outside the house was a signal for all the kids of the neighbourhood to assemble with every conceivable manner of vessel: buckets, basins and even zinc bathtubs '
At that time coal was hard to get and gas was still 'On the Glimmer' so my father rented a piece of bog on the Feather Bed Mountains near the present site of the RTE mast at Kippure. He and others cut turf, saved it, placed it in clamps and in…