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Notes on information contributed by Mr Fletcher Kinvig, 31 Springfield Avenue, Spring Valley, Braddan, aged 81, interviewed by Margaret Killip

Date(s): January 1975

Scope & Content: Mr Kinvig was born in Ronague, a son of Mr & Mrs John Kinvig. Description of Potato Butts at Ballacooil, Arbory; Three-legged pots and their use described. Blacksmiths repairing pots. Talking Manx as a child - Archdeacon Kewley reprimanding the schoolmaster for allowing the children to make fun of Manx speaking children. Sod houses in Glen Rushen; Use of the Ling hook. The Promised land - Glen Rushen - off Round Table - grandfather stopping the Crown authorities from building enclosing walls at a certain part of the road because it was a right of way in to the Promised Land. This also occurred on Dalby Mountain - hence areas are still unfenced.

Language: English

Extent: 4 pages

Item name: typescript

Collection: Manuscript Archive

Level: ITEM

ID number: FLS K/127

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