A walk down Memory Lane

“I used to walk from Rosemount to Greenan Mountain, at Burt. It’s quite a few miles.

I always went to a friend of my father’s, the Moores. There was no bus back then, so you walked everywhere.

We walked up Sheriff’s Mountain and we would walk on all the side roads to get there and I remember it used to take us a couple of hours – now it would take me all day! I’m 82 years old...

We always went in the summer time and once a month I went with my father, John. We done it all from we were small. I had three sisters older than me and we all did that. I was maybe about 10 when I first walked it.

I remember we went one day to a place called Bahallian, it’s there on the Letterkenny Road, and we called in at Killea graveyard where my grandfather is buried. This was a major outing for us. We walked along the Letterkenny Road past the Brandywell and into Marlborough Street and up into Brook Park. It took us all day to do that journey, and we would have our dinner in one place and our tea in another.”