Robert Goodbody Journal

gland extended under her arm became diseased and cancerous which Dr. Jacob and Bathwick afterwards extracted, perhaps in 10th month after the first operation. The second was full as bad as the first operation, besides her life being in much danger from a sudden bleeding of an artery the part to be taken away adhering to an artery, but in the end she favoured to recover, as her death would have been a sure loss to her young family.

The old meeting house in Mountmellick was taken down in 1804 after the quarterly meeting, the last sitting of which owing to snow on the roof being thawing the wet was pouring down in many places. There was in the centre of the house lenghtways five wooden pillars and a beam over them all of oak. From them there were oak griders to the walls at each side. Perhaps 50 years before owing to the girders decaying there was nice brackets put under them at the walls to support them, but when it was taken down it was providential that the roof did not tumble in or at least the heavy ceiling, for the girders were rotten before they rested on the girders. I mention this that persons should inspect public buildings and see that they are safe. The new house was rebuilt in the same year, much of the old walls being left standing. I drew the plan as it now stands, windows and all, I fixed the size of them. In the old house the gallery was lenghtways at the left-hand side as you go in by the doorwhere it is now, with porch outside having two doors. There was also a door in the centre opposite the gallery, which in large meetings was always opened on the meeting breaking up, (I mean in crowded meetings). The meeting house is 54 feet long and 38 feet broad. The present gallery hand rail is made of the handsome old Irish oak of the old house, it

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