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Most farmers in the Kyle district, Nell Leahy noted, had dairies. As a rule, a farmer with 60 acres kept up to 18 cows, while a farmer with 40 acres tended to confine his herd to about 14.

Nell Leahy, drawing on her natural wisdom, explained that boils could be difficult to cure. But if you pressed a hot bottle, heated with boiling water, against the boil it would extract the vile contents and then, hopefully, the boil would go down and disappear. This could be painful, but effective.

Nell Leahy explained to Donnacha O Dualing in one of her radio interviews that many marriages in the 1930s and 1940s were arranged. A date was set for the two to wed whether they liked it or not. Some matches proved successful, others disastrous.

The words of the song come to mind when contemplating Nell Leahy’s word pictures of a past that has virtually disappeared.