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Updated: May 14, 2025
Not a fair, nor a wedding, nor a feast in the seven parishes round, was counted worth the speaking of without 'blind Maurice and his pipes. His mother, poor woman, used to lead him about from one place to another just like a dog. Down through Iveragh, Maurice Connor and his mother were taking their rounds.
Beyond all other places Iveragh is the place for stormy coasts and steep mountains, as proper a spot it is as any in Ireland to get yourself drowned, or your neck broken on the land, should you prefer that.
O'Connell also gave me an odd proof of the retribution which appears likely to fall upon the landowners of the barony of Iveragh. When the Government valuation was first made public it was protested against by Sir James O'Connell, who succeeded in getting it reduced by 30 per cent., an unfortunate circumstance for the present proprietors if the Land League continue to have it all their own way.
Daniel MacCarty died in February 1751, as the account said, 'in the 112th year of his age. He lived during his whole life in the barony of Iveragh, and buried four wives. He married a fifth in the eighty-fourth year of his age, and she but a girl of fourteen, by whom he had several children.
I am told that the duty on the spirits sold in that cheerful townlet exceeds the whole annual value of the barony of Iveragh, and can bear witness to the convergence of the surrounding population on market day.
''Tis a pity, said he, 'if we'd let the piper run dry after such music; 'twould be a disgrace to Iveragh, that didn't come on it since the week of the three Sundays. So, as well became him, for he was always a decent man, says he, 'Did you drink, piper? 'I will, sir, said Maurice, answering the question on the safe side, for you never yet knew piper or schoolmaster who refused his drink.
''Tis a pity, said he, 'if we'd let the piper run dry after such music; 'twould be a disgrace to Iveragh, that didn't come on it since the week of the three Sundays. So, as well became him, for he was always a decent man, says he, 'Did you drink, piper? 'I will, sir, said Maurice, answering the question on the safe side, for you never yet knew piper or schoolmaster who refused his drink.
Not a fair, nor a wedding, nor a feast in the seven parishes round, was counted worth the speaking of without 'blind Maurice and his pipes. His mother, poor woman, used to lead him about from one place to another just like a dog. Down through Iveragh, Maurice Connor and his mother were taking their rounds.
Beyond all other places Iveragh is the place for stormy coasts and steep mountains, as proper a spot it is as any in Ireland to get yourself drowned, or your neck broken on the land, should you prefer that.
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