Robert Goodbody Journal

way the rebels took to give notice to their party in the country, was to attack all the mail coaches and the passage boats. They stopped them all. The Limerick mail was attacked at Cherryville Hill near Kildare, at the very where the Carlow and Cork railway now unites, and a gentleman inside was shot dead, I think him name was Blood; I think the horses also were shot.

In the 8th mo. 1799 my Aunt Pim, Hannah Pim's mother, came in a declining state of health to see us for the last time. She had been very poorly in the Spring it was thought that her decline was brought on by getting a bad fall. She was going out of her Hall door at night to see her soon William next door, and fell perhaps 9 feet into the area, the rails not having been put up, but though stunned she was soon taken up and did not appear to have received much injury. But however she very soon became unwell with some inward complaint. She died in the 11th mo aged 63. My brother Thomas being nearly despaired of at the same time of Typhus fever. My mother took me with her to see her in the 9th mo. She having gone home, after staying a few weeks with us. This was the last time I saw her. She was at all times very kind and much attached t my mother, and I was fond of her.

In this the year 1800 my father and mother and myself and several of the family were at the yearly meeting in Dublin. At which was Hannah Bernard, as artful woman, endeavouring to install principles of infidility into her hearers. She was quite an orator. She and her party Sycamore Alley meeting house, a large meeting, but I was at Meath Street in the morning, where the old lights met. At that time both houses used to be open on 1st day during the meeting, but after that meeting seeing the use that was

Copyright © 2004 Mr Tony Lynch All rights reserved.