![]() You know, small little shops as they call them over there. At one time there were three grocery stores. All Raffertys! And if a stranger came in he’d be afraid to say anything because…“Are ye all related, or what?” And now there’s nothing, only old ruins, and some of them old ruins were taken away for…because they’re building so many new houses there. It’s not much but at one point there was seven families of Raffertys there. Just…let me think, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven….I remember seven houses in my time. Ah sure there was a house here, and was another house maybe a couple of fields away, and they’d be small fields, if you will. If you were going road from Loughrea to Woodford, well you’d be then about five miles from Woodford, and, say, about a mile off of that road would be Larraga. Kylebrack is the borderline of the parish of Leitrim and Ballinakill. That’s the village, and then the post office would be Kylebrack. ![]() Mike Casey : Mike, what is the name of the village that you grew up in? The area where Mike Rafferty grew up is highlighted. ![]()
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