Interesting the concentration in west Limerick
The ancestral home of the little people…… How apt!
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Nice bit of knowlege for a lad who joined in November
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Leinster was never really irish
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Land management.
Many more were cleared on the better farmland.
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It would be a brave man who’d bulldoze a fairy fort…
When I was growing up I was always told about a particular farmer dying after clearing a fairy fort. It turns out he cleared the fort in his 30’s and died in his late 70’s.
Loads of them around here. Plenty of digger men wouldn’t touch them.
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We didn’t tolerate fairies back then nor do we tolerate them now
I got a present of a bottle of poitin last night. It’s lovely stuff.
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I have some here from a waterford man too. Ive never had a hangover as bad. Stuff is bottled evil.
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Real stuff?
Could you share any insights into its composition? I was under the impression that it was generally made feom spuds, however a podder informed me that oats and barley were more common
The real deal. Sure it’s in a wine bottle.
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Sorry. I asked no questions.
A drop in the mouth and a drop on the muscles. You’ll be like a new man
Better than my friend who had it in the drinks press in a Smirnoff bottle. Resulting in the bottle getting polished off after the pub one night. I remember lying on the grass outside, staring at the stars, thinking my head was going to explode.
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I had it myself one night and ended walking out to the taxi without my shoes on.
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I can’t remember if I told this story before.
I was in my first year of playing adult games (junior B) and we reached a county final in the depths of a December cold snap. A bottle of poitin was produced in the dressing room beforehand and passed around. Lads were rubbing it into legs and arms to warm.them up. The bottle was passed to a veteran who instead of pouring a drop into his hands, took a fine hearty swig of the bottle. He then loudly proclaimed “that for some lads it works from the outside in, but for me it works better from the inside out.”
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What sort of forgotten, backwards, pre-christian excuse of a parish do you hale from?
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