Robert Goodbody Journal

she died at the age of seventy-seven in the 12th month, 1786. I was frequently at her house perhaps before 1785, but from that time until her death she had me at meals, when at Tullylost she lived at Thomastown near that, a fine old-fashioned place which she kept extremely nice. She was very neat also in her person. She wore one of those silk velvet black bonnet, which can be sat upon; it had also a cape or pillareen attached to it, which I don't recollect having ever observed on any other person. I recollect her at meeting in Rathangen. She had a four-wheeled chair as it was then called, and her man, Larry Luck, riding on a horse leading her horse. She used a stick with a crook on it's head, and I remember her bringing me one morning after breakfast out to walk with her to see men she had turning a heap of manure. The field long after her death I remember, but perhaps about 40 years ago there was a Glebe house built on the same spot, Thomastown being a parish. While my family lived there there was an old ruin of a church there, and a burying ground, but since that there has been a new church built. I don't think I ever went to Thomastown that my Great-grandfather did not caution me against going to the well, which was the very means of my going to look down into it. It was a draw- well very deep with a roundhouse over it, covered with flags, and a windless for drawing up the water. I think it was 8o feet deep, and I used to go to the door and look into it Thomastown was in a valley and yet there was a great want of water on the land before that well was made. I have heard that in long dry weather the cattle would have to be driven near a mile to water. My Great-grandmothers greatly respected by her neighbours and by friends who knew her. Her maiden name was Metcalf. It is very odd

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