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Jack Nestor (b. 1955) – Oddjob Man, Kilfenora, Co. Clare

See here for more interviews from the Vanishing Ireland project   When the British government conducted its first Ordnance Survey of Ireland in the late 1830s, one of the jobs their surveyors had to consider was what to name the miscellaneous landmarks across the country. When confronted by a one arch stone bridge over MacDuagh’s […]

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