Word: bundoran
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...19th Century observer reported Inishmurray poteen flowing "extensively over the whole seaboard from Sligo to Bundoran and even to a considerable distance inland." In 1893, a detachment of Royal Irish constabulary was quartered there for revenue duty, but in later years, news of police visits usually reached King Michael in time for the great stone jugs of poteen to be hidden in the island's shallow lake. Once sentenced to pay a ?50 fine or spend six months in jail for poteen-making, King Michael said: "I would have paid ?10, but they would not make...
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