2 DIARY FOR 1921

The New Year finds me at Bingfield in fairly good health, in spite of having been ruptured last May, probably by starting the pumping engine. I am very badly off indeed for money owing to a bad season & the failure to sell my flax crop. Pat is farming in New Zealand Ralph has got a job in jute in India, Teddie in the Indian Cavalry, Basil staying with Vida before sailing for N.Z in February. Vera at the Alexandra College in Dublin, & Laila with a Mrs. Thomson at Warren Point, being educated with her girl. May is in pretty good health. We shall have been 25 years married next month

1^st Month JANUARY 1921 31 Days

Bingfield 1 SATURDAY [1 -364]

Bank Holiday, Scotland. Holiday, Stock Exchange

Went to Kilmore for 8 a.m. service, but found there was none.

Fell lame on the way home.

Bingfield 2 SUNDAY [2 -363]

2 after Christmas

Quiet day at home. Wrote to Teddie.

Bingfield 3 MONDAY [3 -362]

Quarter Sessions Week

Wet. Oates being cleaned & flax sent to the mill. Put a perch into the fowls house.

Bingfield 4 TUESDAY [4 -361]

Fine after a very wet night. Basil came home. Mr. Reid called for me to sign some affidavits. Fitted iron to a pig trough.

May & Vera went to a small aft. dance at Farnham.

Bingfield 5 WEDNESDAY [5 -360]

Fine. Vera & Basil went to a small dance at Blackleys. I went to Kevilt to get my Ret. Pay Voucher signed, but Dr. Smith was out.

Began teaching Basil to turn iron.

6 THURSDAY [6-359]

Fine. Ploughing begun on Jenny’s hill. The children went to a party in Cavan. Signed ret pay voucher before Dr. Smith.

Bingfield 7 FRIDAY [7 -358]

Fine with showers. Ploughing on Jenny’s hill. Worked with Brady & Hoey at opening a drain in the front lawn. Letter from mother.

The children went to a party at Kevilt.

1^st Month JANUARY 1921 31 Days

Bingfield 8 SATURDAY [8 -357]

Wet nearly all day. Men cutting firewood. Basil & Vera went to Badminton in Cavan. Dr. Smith examined Laila’s eyes.

Bingfield 9 SUNDAY [9 -356]

1 after Epiphany

Vera & Basil to church. Quiet day. Gloomy & damp.

Bingfield 10 MONDAY [10 -355]

Peace Treaty with Germany ratified 1920

Wet morn. Drove into Cavan & saw Halpin about a loan for cattle etc. Wrote to Evie about it. Vera went to Dublin to school.

Bingfield 11 TUESDAY [11 -354]

Hillary Law Sittings begin

Wet. Worked at accounts & at turning a shaft for Dr. Smiths car.

Men cleaning the yard etc. Got another ferret.

Bingfield 12 WEDNESDAY [12 -353]

Wet. Flax sent to the mill & tow brought back. Men cleaning the yard

Finished & sent off the shaft for Dr. Smith.

Bingfield 13 THURSDAY [13 -352]

Fine & sunny. Flax sent to the mill. Basil, Brady & I ferreted but only caught one rabbit & dug out one. Saw in the Irish Times a notice of the death of Sheila Falls (White King) yesterday in a nursing home in Dublin – she had a son a few days ago.

Bingfield 14 FRIDAY [14 -351]

Fine with slight frost. Wrote to White King. Made out my farm appeal with Simons.

Bingfield 15 SATURDAY [15 -350]

Fine. Manure cutting etc.

Bingfield 16 SUNDAY [16 -349]

Basil only to church. Wrote to Teddie.

Bingfield 17 MONDAY [17 -348]

Wet. Rather seedy. Men cleaning the yard

Bingfield 18 TUESDAY [18 -347]

Stormy – a large pane blown out of the greenhouse. Galligan ploughing, the rest stubbing bushes in Farnadaly.

Bingfield 19 WEDNESDAY [19 -346]

Ploughing & stubbing bushes in Farnadaly. Ferreted with Basil & Brady & got five rabbits.

1^st Month JANUARY 1921 31 Days

Bingfield 20 THURSDAY [20 -345]

Ploughing etc. On duty when the whole family went to the Kilmore sale. Wrote to McDonnell of Twyford School from whom I had heard.

Bingfield 21 FRIDAY [21 -344]

Ploughing & bush stubbing. Turned a plate for the slide rest.

Heard from Evie that he is going to sell out & leave the country owing to financial difficulties. Wrote to him.

Bingfield 22 SATURDAY [22 -343]

Potatoes being gathered in from the field. Basil & I glazed some windows in the greenhouse & potting shed. Mrs. Taylor & three children to tea.

Bingfield 23 SUNDAY [23 -342]

Septuagesima

Damp. Basil only to church. Wrote to Ralph

Bingfield 24 MONDAY [24 -341]

Drove to Cavan & saw Halpin etc. Wrote to my mother to ask her to help me to raise money for stock.

Bingfield 25 TUESDAY [25 -340]

Wrote to Charlie enclosing the letter written yesterday to my mother. Also to Capt. Pullinger. Ploughing etc. Fine & warm. Sharpened & set saws etc.

Bingfield 26 WEDNESDAY [26 -339]

Men snedding turnips. Basil took Laila to Armagh on the way to Warren Point.

Bingfield 27 THURSDAY [27 -338]

Muggy & damp. Potatoes put into sprouting boxes etc.

Bingfield 28 FRIDAY [28 – 337]

Manure carting & fencing. May went to the Blackleys. Basil came back from Warren Point.

Bingfield 29 SATURDAY [29 -336]

Fencing & manure carting. Made a stick to hang my ulster on.

Bingfield 30 SUNDAY [30 -335]

Wet & windy. We all went to morn. service at Kilmore.

Bingfield 31 MONDAY [31 -334]

Brady sold oats in Cavan. Basil & I ferreted & got seven rabbits

Wrote to Charlie & my mother about raising money to carry on the place.

2^nd Month FEBRUARY 1921 28 Days

Bingfield 1 Feb TUESDAY [32 -333]

Men gathering turnips etc. mended the window of the Coach house loft.

Bingfield 2 WEDNESDAY [33 -332]

The Waggs went to Drumroe. Ploughing in Monery. Ferretted and got 2 rabbits. Mrs. Askins called

Bingfield 3 THURSDAY [34 -331]

Wet. Ploughing in Monery. Sharpened and set a saw after a lot of house work.

Bingfield 4 FRIDAY [35 -330]

Stormy. Ploughing in Monery & pass made for getting out timber. Worked at saws etc.

Bingfield 5 SATURDAY [36 -329]

Men burning bushes (hedge cuttings) etc. Basil to Cavan. Heard from Charlie & my Mother that they cannot help me. Miss Moore called.

Bingfield 6 SUNDAY [37 -328]

Quinquagesima

Cold day. May & Basil to church. Wrote to mother, Charlie & Ralph.

Bingfield 7 MONDAY [38 -327]

Cold. Ploughing & potatoe picking. Made a new base for the butter dish of beech.

Bingfield 8 TUESDAY [39 -326]

Shrove Tuesday – Half Quarter Day

Cold. Wet morn. I am rather lame. Set the cross-cut saw & helped Basil to cut down some holly. Wrote to Vida on her 40^th birthday

Bingfield 9 WEDNESDAY [40 -325]

Cold & frosty with some sun. Potatoe gathering & tree marking.

Bingfield 10 THURSDAY [41 -324]

Cold & foggy. Timber auction. Our 25^th wedding day.

Bingfield 11 FRIDAY [42 -323]

Rather milder. Bad indigestion. Wrote to Evie.

Bingfield 12 SATURDAY [43 -322]

Fixed the dairy door – i.e. planed the edge, & made a splash board for the engine tank. Wellwood came to see about Schedule A of the Income Tax on this place. Went to Lisnamandra to meet Eva Roe.

Bingfield 13 SUNDAY [44 -321]

1 in Lent

May & Basil to church. Wrote to Pat.

2^nd Month FEBRUARY 1921 28 Days

Bingfield 14 MONDAY [45 -320]

Milder. Ploughing & gathering cabbages & carrots. Repaired some harness & the latch of the front garden gate.

Set a hen on hen’s eggs

Bingfield 15 TUESDAY [46 -319]

Milder. Wrote to Teddie on his passing an exam.

Bingfield 16 WEDNESDAY [47 -318]

Stones being raised for a drain in the front lawn.

Bingfield 17 THURSDAY [48 -317]

Seedy – Draining in front lawn.

Bingfield 18 FRIDAY [49 -316]

Still seedy, but a little better. Draining finished. Large numbers of police passing in lorries. Brady caught young Mc. Kernan poaching – Confiscated his ferret & gave him a good at telling off.

Bingfield 19 SATURDAY [50 -315]

Firewood being carted out of the back lawn. Basil went to Cavan & reported on returning that the mail train had been held up & Belfast goods thrown into the river Annalee.

Bingfield 20 SUNDAY [51 -314]

2 in Lent

Only Basil to church. Wrote to Teddie. Young Mc. Kernan came & I gave him back his ferret, on his promise of good behaviour.

Bingfield 21 MONDAY [52 -313]

Basil left by the early train for Dalkey preliminary to his sailing on Friday for New Zealand. Brady tried to buy cattle, but failed. Four pigs killed. Did some repairs to mangers in the stable.

Bingfield 22 TUESDAY [53 -312]

Pigs sold in Cavan. Cut ivy & elders by the pond etc. Milder

Bingfield 23 WEDNESDAY [54 -311]

Milder. Odd jobs about the place. Manure carting from the stable yard.

Set two hens on hen’s eggs.

Bingfield 24 THURSDAY [55 -310]

Drove into Cavan morn. on business. Mrs. Hamilton called.

2^nd Month FEBRUARY 1921 28 Days

Bingfield 25 FRIDAY [56 -309]

Did some repairs to the dog cart. Teddie sent me the Fasâna Âzâd.

But apparently the 3^rd Volume is missing. Wrote to him.

Set a hen on duck’s eggs. – Went wrong

Bingfield 26 SATURDAY [57 -308]

Warm & sunny. Ploughing potatoe ground in Monery etc. Wrote to

Evie.

Bingfield 27 SUNDAY [58 -307]

3 in Lent

May to church. Quiet day at home.

Bingfield 28 MONDAY [59 -306]

Ploughing in Monery. Odd jobs about the place.

3^rd Month MARCH 1921 31 Days

Bingfield 1 March TUESDAY [60 -305]

Turnips & Potatoes sent to Cavan market. Called at Dr. Smith’s to get a lift for the assizes. Annie Hamilton & Miss Stewart came about a missing horse rug.

Bingfield 2 WEDNESDAY [61 -304]

Manure carting etc. Not very well. A little snow.

Bingfield 3 THURSDAY [62 -303]

Dr. Smith drove me to the assizes & Scott brought me home. Clements of Rathkenny was held up by an ambush at Drung. Ploughing in Monery until rain stopped it. Brady went to Belturbet to buy cattle.

Bingfield 4 FRIDAY [63 -302]

Seedy. In bed till lunch. Wet most of the day.

Bingfield 5 SATURDAY [64 -301]

Nearly all right. Stones being put down on the upper part of the Back Lane.

Mrs Brabason called to say good goodbye. Accounts etc.

Bingfield 6 SUNDAY [65 -300]

4 in Lent

Bitterly cold wind. We neither of us went to church.

Bingfield 7 MONDAY [66 -299]

Warmer. Mended my busby case. The small door of the archway loft, &

buied my big lathe chuck. Mr. Askins called with a book containing an essay by Paget, Bishop of Oxford, on Accidia a word which puzzled me in Thos. Aquinas.

3^rd Month MARCH 1921 31 Days

Bingfield 8 TUESDAY [67 -298]

Brady sold some cattle for me. Harrowing potatoe ground in Monery.

Bingfield 9 WEDNESDAY [68 -297]

Ploughing for Potatoes in Monery. Heard from Teddie & Ralph

Bingfield 10 THURSDAY [69 -296]

A good deal of wind & rain. Ploughing for potatoes. Wrote to Ralph & Teddie.

Bingfield 11 FRIDAY [70 -295]

Fine & sunny – Odd jobs.

Bingfield 12 SATURDAY [71 -294]

Very cold wind. Men cutting potatoes.

Set a goose – The nest was robbed in the night or morning

Bingfield 13 SUNDAY [72 -293]

5 in Lent

May to church. Wrote to Teddie.

Bingfield 14 MONDAY [73 -292]

Manure carting to Monery & Black Oats sowed. Made a picture frame for Brady, put the Knife machine in to order, & mended a lamp.

Set a hen on duck’s eggs

Bingfield 15 TUESDAY [74 -291]

Cross ploughing in Monery & potatoe cutting. Finished the picture frame for Brady. Mrs. Smith to tea.

Bingfield 16 WEDNESDAY [75 -290]

Bright with showers. Cross ploughing in Monery & Potatoee cutting

Bingfield 17 THURSDAY [76 -289]

Bank Holiday Ireland

Fine until even. when heavy rain came on. Holiday for the men.

Lend Brady £1 Paid 23.3.21

Bingfield 18 FRIDAY [77 -288]

Cold & some rain. Timber sent to saw mills. Heard from Murray that my carbonater was sent from Edmonton about a fortnight ago

Burnett, the dentist came & fixed my false teeth.

3^rd Month MARCH 1921 31 Days

Bingfield 19 SATURDAY [78 -287]

Wet. Worked at diamond drills. The new Carbonater arrived.

Heard that the Stores bread van was burned on Wed. last near Cavan Station by Sinn Feinners. Heard that Vera has influenza.

Bingfield 20 SUNDAY [79 -286]

Palm Sunday

Damp & muggy – neither of us to church.

Bingfield 21 MONDAY [80 -285]

Heard from & wrote to J. B. about my investments. Also to Murray & the Sparklet people about the Carbonater.

Chain harrow work on the lawn & front lawn & sticks being collected. Not very well with indigestion.

Bingfield 22 TUESDAY [81 -284]

Fine. Horses shod etc. Still troubled with indigestion.

Set a hen on ducks eggs.

Bingfield 23 WEDNESDAY [82 -283]

Hillary Law Settings end

Settled with Brady in full for the money he spent over & above what I gave him for cattle & pigs in December last.

Bingfield 24 THURSDAY [83 -282]

Laila & Vera came home. Very unwell with heart trouble. Sent for Clarke.

Bingfield 25 FRIDAY [84 -281]

Good Friday. Lady Day. Quarter Day

Still seedy. The tax collector threatens a distraint. Wrote to say that my farm appeal is in the hands of the Inspector of Taxes.

Bingfield 26 SATURDAY [85 -280]

Rather better. Wrote to Inspector of Taxes about my farm appeal.

Gave Galligan a month’s notice, as I cannot keep as many men.

Set a hen on turkey’ eggs.

Bingfield 27 SUNDAY [86 – 279]

Easter Day

May went to 9. a.m communion. A little better, but still seedy.

Bingfield 28 MONDAY [87 -278]

Getting better slowly. Grazing auction. Arranged with Simons to sell some furniture.

Bingfield 29 MONDAY [86 -277]

Half a gale & cold. Fencing Jenny’s hill which is ploughed.

Very much better. Mended Vera’s umbrella, cleaned sparking etc. etc.

3^rd Month MARCH 1921 31 Days

Bingfield 30 WEDNESDAY [89 -276]

Fencing Jennys Hill.

Bingfield 31 THURSDAY [90 -275]

Men digging a drain near the gate on the avenue & rolling the Barrick field. Mrs. Moore & daughters called.

4^th Month APRIL 1922 30 Days

Bingfield 1 April FRIDAY [91-274]

Rolling meadows etc. Fine & mild. Vera spent the day in Cavan.

Did some repairs to the chicken house. Not so well.

Bingfield 2 SATURDAY [92 -273]

Oats sown on Jenny’s Hill. May & the girl’s to Danesfort.

Wrote to Teddie.

Bingfield 3 SUNDAY [93 -272]

1 after Easter

May & Vera to church. Wrote to Ralph & Nasir Ali.

Bingfield 4 MONDAY [94 -271]

Quarter Sessions Week

Cleaned the magneto of the pumping engine. Brady & I repaired & put up the chicken house. Stopped a leak in a water barrel.

Brought up to the potatoe house a turkey & 13 eggs from Lower Garden.

Bingfield 5 TUESDAY [95 -270]

Manure carting for potatoes. May & the girls went to Castle Hamilton, but found no one at home.

Bingfield 6 WEDNESDAY [96 -269]

Harrowing & cross ploughing potatoe ground. Mc. Cabe came & repaired part of the broken wheelbarrow.

Bingfield 7 THURSDAY [97 -268]

Manure carting for potatoes Mc. Cabe at wheelbarrow wheels

The Smiths & Askins to tea.

Glass for Brady 2/6

Bingfield 8 FRIDAY [98 -267]

Potatoes planted in the garden, & harrowing in Monery. Shifted furniture from Vera’s room & repaired a chest of drawers & pedestal cupboard.

4^th Month APRIL 1921 30 Days

Bingfield 9 SATURDAY [99 -266]

Fire Insurances expire

Ploughing in Monery for potatoes. Began mending my fret machine. The rest went to Danesport.

Bingfield 10 SUNDAY [100 -265]

2 after Easter

May & Vera to church. Wrote to the Secretary of the Land Commission

Bingfield 11 MONDAY [101 -264]

Got down the furniture for thursday’s auction. Repaired part of a wardrobe & fitted a key to Vera’s trunk etc.

Bingfield 12 TUESDAY [102 -263]

Rolling oats ground etc. Did some repairs to furniture for sale, & fitted a new arm to my fret machine.

Bingfield 13 WEDNESDAY [103 -262]

Men’s potatoes put in. Plumbers came & mended a leak in the hot water pipe from the kitchen boiler. We put up the Carbonater, but the reducing valve burst & made a dent in the ceiling. Packed it to send to Murray. Finished my fret saw.

Bingfield 14 THURSDAY [104 -261]

Cold & sunny with hail & snow showers. Auction of some old furniture held in the yard. Mrs. Halpin & Mrs. Gordon & Dick Halpin to tea. Halpin Sen. came later on a bicycle.

Bingfield 15 FRIDAY [105 -260]

Bitterly cold. Oats in Monery finished. Mrs. Hamilton called.

Bingfield 16 SATURDAY [106 -259]

Kitchen chimney swept & a great mess made

Hewed & ground an axe etc.

Bingfield 17 SUNDAY [107 -258]

3 after Easter

Cold day. Vera only to church. Wrote to Halpin on dialects.

Bingfield 18 MONDAY [108 -257]

Cold & sunny. Men working for Brady. Vera went back to College

Fixed the Knife machine etc.

Set a hen on hen’s eggs.

Bingfield 19 TUESDAY [109 -256]

Cold & sunny. Ploughing for potatoes. Headache most of the day. Laila in bed with a cold.

4^th Month APRIL 1921 30 Days

Bingfield 20 WEDNESDAY [110 -255]

Potatoe planting. Cold day. Heard that my mother is ill.

Wrote to Charlie about my going over.

Bingfield 21 THURSDAY [111 -254]

Warmer & sunny. Manure carting. Found that a sitting turkey had been killed, probably by a fox

Bingfield 22 FRIDAY [112 -253]

Wet. The turkey sitting in the Bellgrove Killed during the night.

Worked all day at the cold water tap by the sink & fitted a new top half & connecting nipple to it. Mrs. Taylor’s children came to play with Laila.

Bingfield 23 SATURDAY [113 -252]

Sunny & warmer. Fitted a top to a tap. Potatoe planting. No trains running on the

M.G.W.R. Cox went to Cavan to enquire about it, & about trains on the G.N.R. Wrote to Ralph.

Bingfield 24 SUNDAY [114 -251]

4 after Easter

Warm & sunny. May to church. Wrote to White King & Tissington Tatlow.

Bingfield 25 MONDAY [115 -250]

Telegram from Teddie saying he sailed for Liverpool from Bombay on the 20^th. Drove into Cavan on business. Was informed that the Midland to Tnny

Junction was closed by military order because the goods train had been raided every night for a month. Louis Smith told me that some of my raided things had been burnt in a house near Ballinanagh (probably fired by police), but that some things wd. be given back, when a man dared to come to Cavan with them.

Helped to put a handle into a spade.

Bingfield 26 TUESDAY [116 -249]

Enquired about trains at the station. Got the ivy on the stables cut at the top & runners removed etc.

Bingfield 27 WEDNESDAY [117 -248]

May & Laila went to Armagh by the 6.35 a.m. train. Ground being prepared for mangolds. Made a chicken run out of a bicycle crate.

Bingfield 28 THURSDAY [118 -247]

Hedge cutting in Glouds field. Put up the new reducing valve for the Carbonater. Got Rob. Hoonan to climb a tree in Farnadaly for some young hawks, but he did not find them. Heard from & wrote to Teddie to Malta & to Murray thanking him for the valve.

4^th Month APRIL 1921 30 Days

Bingfield 29 FRIDAY [119 -246]

May came back from Warren Point. Rolling in Monery.

Brady to Cavan for medicine for a sick calf. Heard that Mrs. Clements, formerly of Rathkenny had died suddenly

Bingfield 30 SATURDAY [120 -245]

Drove to Coravahan & attended Mrs. Clement’s funeral.

Lunch at Coravahan—John Madden of Hilton & Henry Leslie were there. Interesting talk with them. Heard from Tissington Tatlow about the possibility of our leaving here.

5^th Month MAY 1921 31 Days

Bingfield 1 May SUNDAY [121 -244]

Rogation Sunday

Very hot. Made out a return for Inspector of Taxes. Wrote to White King & send him an extract from the story of Dilla , & a letter also written some days ago. Sent Tissington’s letter to Charlie.

Set a hen on ducks eggs.

Bingfield 2 MONDAY [122 -243]

Bank Holiday, Scotland. Holiday, Stock Exchange. Royal Academy opens

May has a bad cold. Mangolds being sown. Cleaned brass etc.

Much colder.

Bingfield 3 TUESDAY [123 -242]

Ground prepared for turnips. Odd jobs as usual.

Bingfield 4 WEDNESDAY [124 -241]

Turnips sowing in Monery. Sent some mattresses to Cavan to be done up. I have a bad cold.

Bingfield 5 THURSDAY [125 -240]

Holiday for the men. My cold bad. Heard from & wrote to White King about Hindustani exam. Papers. Mended a watering can.

Bingfield 6 FRIDAY [126 -239]

Men cleaning the drive. Wrote to Basil.

Bingfield 7 SATURDAY [127 -238]

Men cleaning the drive. Heard from Charlie. My cold still bad.

Bingfield 8 SUNDAY [128 -237]

Sunday after Ascension

Both stayed at home on account of our colds.

5^th Month MAY 1921 31 Days

Bingfield 9 MONDAY [129 -236]

Half Quarter Day

Final showers. The Waggs went to Drumroe. Men repairing the Monery

Kesh & cleaning the drain. Made a new oak gate post for the Lodge.

Bingfield 10 TUESDAY [130 -235]

Turf making begun. Brady & I closed the hole in the Kitchen wall for getting at the hot water pipes.

Bingfield 11 WEDNESDAY [131 -234]

Library & Dining room chimneys swept. Rooms turned out & all carpets beaten. A heavy days job.

Bingfield 12 THURSDAY [132 -233]

Dining room cleaned & furniture replaced. Filed the crank pin bearings of my pump.

Bingfield 13 FRIDAY [133 -232]

Easter Law Sittings end

Heard that Mrs. Jollie died on March 6^th. & also that my mother is very ill. Turf making.

Set a hen on hens eggs.

Bingfield 14 SATURDAY [134 -231]

Turf making & housecleaning. Sinn Fein sweeps the country at the elections. Teddie landed at Liverpool & went on to Tourquay.

Heard from and wrote to White King.

Lent Brady £3 – Paid £1 – 21.5 .21 }

Paid £1 – 28.5 .21}Paid in full June 11^th

Bingfield 15 SUNDAY [135 -230]

Whitsun Day. Scottish Quarter Day

May & I both stayed at home. Bad colds.

Bingfield 16 MONDAY [136 – 229]

Slight rain. Cold still bad – Odd jobs.

Bingfield 17 TUESDAY [137 -228]

Turf making. Mc. Cabe came to work & made a wheel for a wheelbarrow etc. He brought his son with him.

Bingfield 18 WEDNESDAY [138 -227]

Turf cutting. McCabe at walls in the bullock yard & lower garden. The son at the donkey cart. Repaired the wheel of the boys hand cart.

5^th Month MAY 1921 31 Days

Bingfield 19 THURSDAY [139 -226]

Turf cutting. Mc. Cabe at the donkey cart. Worked at the iron work of the yard gates, turned a knob for McCabe, & soldered the tool for vaccinating cattle. Heard from & wrote to Cox & Co about an overdraft.

Bingfield 20 FRIDAY [140 -225]

Turf cutting. Carpenters at the cart. Wrote to King & Teddie

Bingfield 21 SATURDAY [141 -224]

Grubbing between potatoe drills. Carpenters at the donkey cart & my boat.

Bingfield 22 SUNDAY [142 -223]

Trinity Sunday

Fine & sunny. May to a special service in Kilmore.

Bingfield 23 MONDAY [143 -222]

Turf making. Carpenters at a lean to shed at the Stewards house Hot & sunny.

Bingfield 24 TUESDAY [144 -221]

Trinity Law kept sittings begin. Empire Day

Row between Brady & the McCabes which I made up in a sort of a way. Wire from Vida about Teddie to which May replied. Heard from White King. Turf cutting. Carpenters at my boats.

Bingfield 25 WEDNESDAY [145 -220]

Turf cutting. May to Cavan on business. McCabe finished the boats & cart. Rain even.

Bingfield 26 THURSDAY [146 -219]

May left by the 6.35 a.m. train for England to fetch Teddie. Holiday for the men. Account of the destruction of the Dublin Custom House by Rebels.

Bingfield 27 FRIDAY [147 -218]

Find the showers. Turf cutting for Brady. Wrote to King.

Bingfield 28 SATURDAY [148 -217]

Turf cutting for the men. Hail storm morn. Clean the pump valve which was choked with mud.

Bingfield 29 SUNDAY [149 -216]

1 after Trinity

Heavy rain & cold. Wrote to Nasir Ali.

Bingfield 30 MONDAY [150 -215]

Wet day. Pigs killed for sale tomorrow. Dr. Smith looked in morn. & Askins even.

Bingfield 31 TUESDAY [151 -214]

Fine, but cold. Pigs sold in Cavan. They sold badly

6^th Month JUNE 1921 30 Days

Bingfield 1 June WEDNESDAY [152 – 213]

Heard from May & wrote to her. She wired later to say she had gone to Mary Freeman. Worked at the gate between the Rocks & Back Lawn etc. Slightly warmer.

Bingfield 2 THURSDAY [153 -212]

Fine & warm. Men fencing the wood etc & potatoe moulding. Heard from & wrote to Ralph. Sent on May’s & kept Teddie’s letters.

Bingfield 3 FRIDAY [154 -211]

King George V. born, 1865

Fine & warm. Potatoe moulding in Monery & fencing in Back Lawn, cleaning the drive, etc.

Bingfield 4 SATURDAY [155 -210]

Fine & warm. Men are moulding potatoes in the garden. Wrote to May.

Bingfield 5 SUNDAY [156 -209]

2 after Trinity

Hot day. The Waggs went to Drumroe.

Bingfield 6 MONDAY [157 -208]

Hot. Turf making. Carpets beaten etc.

Bingfield 7 TUESDAY [158 -207]

Very hot. Wrote to May & Nasir Ali. Rain at night.

Bingfield 8 WEDNESDAY [159 -206]

Cooler. Turf making. The Cavan road badly damaged last night by Rebels near the Lisnamandra cottages. The bridge on the main road partially demolished & the road trenched, & the bridge on the old road wholly demolished.

My mother died today aged 91

According to the Times it was the next day the 9^th.

Bingfield 9 THURSDAY [160 -205]

Cool day with showers. Turf making.

I find that my mother died about 4 a.m. this day.

Bingfield 10 FRIDAY [161 -204]

Fine. Turf making. Spent all day putting the spare room straight

Bingfield 11 SATURDAY [162 -203]

Heard from May that my mother died on Wednesday. Wrote to her & sent notices to the Irish Times & Anglo Celt. Weed cutting in the Bell Grove & lower garden. The announcement had already been put in the Times & Irish Times.

6^th Month JUNE 1921 30 Days

Bingfield 12 SUNDAY [163 -202]

3 after Trinity

Stayed quietly at home.

Bingfield 13 MONDAY [164 -201]

Fine, but cool. Weed cutting along the back lane.

Bingfield 14 TUESDAY [165 -200]

My mother’s funeral. Weed cutting on the lawn, & some turf making.

Bingfield 15 WEDNESDAY [166 -199]

Heard from & wrote to Florie & May. The Excise Officer came to see me about petrol rebate Askins called & told me how he had warned a man to fly the country, as he was to be murdered

Bingfield 16 THURSDAY [167 -198]

Very hot. A body of troops passed going in the Arva-Killeshandra direction. Heard from & wrote to King. The lawn mowed.

Bingfield 17 FRIDAY [168 -197]

Very hot. Turf lifting. May sent me an epitome of my mothers will.

Bingfield 18 SATURDAY [169 -196]

Cloudy but hot. Turf lifting & hay cocked on the lawn etc.

Bingfield 19 SUNDAY [170 -195]

4 after Trinity

The Waggs went to Drumroe. Arranged the Store Cupboard.

Burrowes came to see me.

Bingfield 20 MONDAY [171 -194]

Cool & cloudy. The small pond cleared out. Repaired the small garden gate, & found my long lost cigar lighter.

Bingfield 21 TUESDAY [172 -193]

Cloudy & cold, but apparently no sign of rain. Send a large log to Cavan saw mill. Weeds cut in the garden.

Bingfield 22 WEDNESDAY [173 -192]

Drove into Cavan on business. Wrote to Pat.

Bingfield 23 THURSDAY [174 -191]

Lunch with the Burrowes. My boats put onto the lake. A casual remark caused me to drive at dinner time to Danesfort to see Askins, but he was out.

6^th Month JUNE 1921 30 Days

Bingfield 24 FRIDAY [175 -190]

Midsummer Day. Quarter Day

Askins to see me morn. about Teddie & Vera’s coming home.

Hay cutting begun in Clerkin’s field. Put out the strawberry nets. Watered the garden from the old well.

Bingfield 25 SATURDAY [176 -189]

Very hot. Hay cocked in Clerkin’s field.

Bingfield 26 SUNDAY [177 -188]

5 after Trinity

The bridge near Rosies damaged again. The road deeply trenched over the crown of the arch. Had a chat with Moore.

Bingfield 27 MONDAY [178 -187]

Quarter Sessions Week

Cooler, but still no sign of rain. Brady & I furnished the beam of the hay rake & one spear. Pasted up some of the ceiling paper in the drawing room. Lloyd George invites De Valera to a conference to arrange peace.

Bingfield 28 TUESDAY [179 -186]

Peace Treaty signed, 1919

Very hot. Brady went to camp Cavan to get barrels for drinking tubs.

Hay cocked in Clerkins field.

Bingfield 29 WEDNESDAY [180 -185]

Heard from Evie & wrote to him about my mothers income etc.

Also Mr. Rootham on his approaching retirement. Wrote to him.

Sent on Evies letter to May. Brady & I finished the hay rake.

Heard that Stradone has been burnt by the rebels.

Bingfield 30 THURSDAY [181 -184]

Sunny but fairly cool. Clerkin’s field finished, & some mowing in the Barrick field. Confirmation of the news that Stradone was burnt, & also Venable’s of Red Hills. Heard from Vera that she goes to Cheltenham tomorrow.

7^th Month JULY 1921 31 Days

Bingfield 1 July FRIDAY [182 -183]

Dominion Day, Canada

Mowing in the Cow Pasture. Walked over to Kevilt to arrange for a lift to the Assizes.

Bingfield 2 SATURDAY [183 -182]

Cloudy & cooler, but no sign of rain. Hay making in the Cow Pasture. Wrote to R. T. Marshall about houses. Saw Miss Rorke & Mrs. Tom Beattie about the disease which kills my gosling’s.

7^th Month JULY 1921 31 Days

Bingfield 3 SUNDAY [184 -181]

6 after Trinity

At home as usual. Wrote to the Dept. Of Agriculture about the disease which kills the Gosling’s.

Bingfield 4 MONDAY [185 -184]

Declaration of American Independence

Still no sign of rain. Wrote to Lou about my mother’s income.

Hay making in Monery.

Bingfield 5 TUESDAY [186 -179]

Went to meet May at the station, but found on the way here that she had not come. Mowing in Gloud’s field. No sign of rain.

Bingfield 6 WEDNESDAY [187 -178]

Dr. Smith drove me & Moore to the Assizes & back. Met at the Farnham Hotel a barrister named Falls, first cousin of J. B. & uncle of Sheila Fall’s husband.

One heavy shower of rain

Bingfield 7 THURSDAY [188 -177]

Cloudy, hot, & stuffy. Two letters from May. Wrote to her.

Grubbing between turnips.

Bingfield 8 FRIDAY [189 -176]

Hot & stuffy again. Hay making as usual.

Bingfield 9 SATURDAY [190 -175]

Fire Insurances expire

Hot & still no rain. Hay work as usual. Wrote to Evie, Charlie, May & Joan Carew who has broken her arm. Also to Rooke for copies of my father’s will & my marriage settlements.

Bingfield 10 SUNDAY [191 -174]

7 after Trinity

Very hot. Found a lot of moths in the rabbit skin rugs in the hall.

Bingfield 11 MONDAY [192 – 173]

My 67^th Birthday, no letters from any one. A truce from murder proclaimed by the Rebels. Hay making. Turned 3 bars for our old cot bought by Smith the schoolmaster.

Bingfield 12 TUESDAY [193 -172]

Very hot. The Waggs went to Drumroe. Mc.Donald & I cleaned the suction valve of the pump.

Bingfield 13 WEDNESDAY [191 -171]

Very hot. Mowing in the Cow Pasture. Wrote to May, Low, Fran, & Florie from whom I had heard.

7^th Month JULY 1921 31 Days

Bingfield 14 THURSDAY [195 -170]

Very hot, but a breeze. May, Vera, & Teddie came home.

Hay making in the cow pasture.

Bingfield 15 FRIDAY [196 -169]

Heavy rain morn. Grubbing turnips & some hay work.

Bingfield 16 SATURDAY [197 -168]

Some heavy rain. The rest went to Cavan for tennis. Wrote to Pat.

Turnip weeding.

Bingfield 17 SUNDAY [198 -167]

8 after Trinity

Fine, but cloudy. We all went to church.

Bingfield 18 MONDAY [199 -166]

Went to Cavan, & left copies of my fathers will & my two marriage settlements with Halpin, while the rest went fishing on the lake.

Bingfield 19 TUESDAY [200 -165]

Teddie & I cleaned the pipe from the valley on the roof, & examined the things up there. Worked a little at mending a broken bed. Turf carting.

Bingfield 20 WEDNESDAY [201 -164]

Had the well in the front lawn cleaned out. Hay carting begun.

The rest went to Cavan.

Bingfield 21 THURSDAY [202 -163]

Turnip thinning & weeding. Vera & Teddie went fishing on the lake with Brady, & caught about 9 dozen perch.

Bingfield 22 FRIDAY [203 -162]

Burroughs called morn. with Clements to get me to witness his signature. Hay carting. Heavy rain even. Not very well.

Bingfield 23 SATURDAY [204 -161]

Teddie went to Rostrevor by an early train to fetch Laila.

Heavy rain. Men pulling ragweed in the back lawn.

Wrote to Charlie.

Bingfield 24 SUNDAY [205 -160]

9 after Trinity

We all went to church. Smith the school master drove me. Some rain.

Bingfield 25 MONDAY [206 -159]

Cutting thistles & ragweed in Monery & the Horse Park with the mowing machine – The crop was such as has never been seen. Put sheet iron onto the beam of the mowing machine

7^th Month JULY 1921 31 Days

Bingfield 26 TUESDAY [207 -158]

Hay carting. Mrs. Moore & sister in law to tea.

Bingfield 27 WEDNESDAY [208 -157]

Drove into Cavan & saw Halpin on business etc. Potatoe spraying

May & Vera to Cavan for tennis.

Lent Brady 10/-- Paid 29.8 .21

Bingfield 28 THURSDAY [209 -156]

Heavy rain all day. Cleaned all the brass etc.

Bingfield 29 FRIDAY [210 -155]

Had the front lawn well deepened. Vera to Cavan for tennis.

Bingfield 30 SATURDAY [211 -154]

Trinity Law Sittings end

Heavy rain nearly all day. Wrote to Charlie & Teddie. Turned 22 ladder rungs.

Bingfield 31 SUNDAY [212 -153]

10 after Trinity

May & Vera to church. Wrote to Ralph.

8^th Month AUGUST 1921 31 Days

Bingfield 1 MONDAY [213 -152]

Bank Holiday. Lammass – Scottish Quarter Day. Royal Academy closes

Heard from & wrote to Tierney about Welldon & my maps

Cleaned windows. Vera to tennis at Kilmore.

Bingfield 2 TUESDAY [214 -151]

Fine with slight showers. Hay carting. Mrs. Scott called.

Wrote to Teddie. Vera to tennis at Kilmore.

Bingfield 3 WEDNESDAY [215 -150]

Petty sessions morn. Hay carting, but stopped by rain. Brady put together the new ladder.

Bingfield 4 THURSDAY [216 -149]

Wet nearly all day. Some hay carting. Brady finished the ladder.

Bingfield 5 FRIDAY [217 -148]

Dull & showery. Teddie & Laila came home. Some oats cut on Jenny’s Hill & some hay carting.

Bingfield 6 SATURDAY [218 -147]

Showers morn. Fine aft. Most of the oats cut on Jenny’s Hill. The rest went with the Scots to a picnic at Rathkenny.

8^th Month AUGUST 1921 31 Days

Bingfield 7 SUNDAY [219 -146]

11 after Trinity

Teddie, Laila, & Vera to church. Showery

Bingfield 8 MONDAY [220 -145]

Showery. Oats finished on Jenny’s Hill. Repaired a gate, & helped Brady to mend the spouting round the Hay Barn. Fitted a nut to the mowing machine, & soldered the gas pipe of the carbonater.

Bingfield 9 TUESDAY [221 -144]

Wet. Teddie went to Dublin for the horse show

Lent Brady £ 1. Paid 13.8.21.

Bingfield 10 WEDNESDAY [221 -143]

Fine. Top dressing the Barrack field. The rest to Cavan for tennis. Soldered the pipe of the potatoe sprayer – a hard job.

Bingfield 11 THURSDAY [223 -142]

Half Quarter Day

Fine morning, but heavy rain stopped the hay work in the Monery Bottoms. Cleaned the rain water tank.

Bingfield 12 FRIDAY [224 -141]

A good deal of rain. Top dressing No hay work possible

Bingfield 13 SATURDAY [225 -140]

Showery. Hay lapped in Monery Bottoms. Vera to Cavan for Tennis.

Bingfield 14 SUNDAY [226 -139]

12 after Trinity

We all went to morn service. Heard that Miss Daniel the organist had been kidnapped last night.

Bingfield 15 MONDAY [227 -138]

Holiday for the men. Teddie came home.

Bingfield 16 TUESDAY [228 -137]

Fine until about 6.30 P. M. When heavy rain came on. Hay cocked in Monery

Bottoms. The children to tennis in Cavan. Mad a screw for racket press.

Bingfield 17 WEDNESDAY [229 -136]

Brady’s baby died. Mrs. Cox had a girl born yesterday.

Helped Teddie with his packing etc. gave him sone silver to take to Charlie at Torquay. Fine day.

~~Lent Brady £3 Paid 29.8.21~~

8^th Month AUGUST 1921 31 Days

Teddie left. Brady at his child’s funeral. Hay making in Monery Bottoms, & some oats cut in Monery Hill. Fitted oil cloth to the pantry wash up table. Repaired & cleaned behind the cup board. Did some glazing to the potting shed. Heard from Vida & wrote her a lot of Persian, Arabic & Nagiri.

Bingfield 19 FRIDAY [231 -134]

Oats being reaped in Monery. Wrote to Teddie. Fine & hot.

The rest went to Danesfort.

Bingfield 20 SATURDAY [232 -133]

Fine. Oats reaping in Monery. Wrote to Ralph. The rest to Cavan for tennis.

Bingfield 21 SUNDAY [233 -132]

13 after Trinity

Only Vera to church. Showers. Rivetted a china dish

Bingfield 22 MONDAY [234 -131]

Fin – All oats cut except a small bit in Monery not yet ripe. Had some trouble with my engine, but got it right.

The Askins & Smith children to tea.

Bingfield 23 TUESDAY [235 -130]

Fine. Oats being carted to the haggard. Took off the Scullery hot water tap. The rest to tennis at the Blackleys.

Bingfield 24 WEDNESDAY [236 -129]

Drove into Cavan on business morn. The rest to tennis aft.

Bingfield 25 THURSDAY [237 -128]

Fine. Hay carting. May to a mother’s meeting at Kilmore.

Vera to tennis in Cavan. Laila rode to the Smiths.

Bingfield 26 FRIDAY [238 -127]

Fine & windy. Hay carting etc.

Bingfield 27 SATURDAY [239 -126]

Fine morn. but steady rain came on about 1.P.M. Plummer came & mended two leaks in the water pipes.

Bingfield 28 SUNDAY [240 -125]

14 after Trinity

Fine morn. Vera & I to church. Heavy rain in the evening.

8^th Month AUGUST 1921 31 Days

Bingfield 29 MONDAY [241 -124]

Showery. Hay being built up near the Round Bank.

Made a plug for the bath. Wrote to Evie. The rest to a children’s party at the Blackleys.

Bingfield 30 TUESDAY [242 -123]

Fine & sunny. Brady to Cavan on his own business. Men cleaning up round Monery etc. The rest to a Party at the Atkinsons.

Bingfield 31 WEDNESDAY [243 -122]

Fine with some light rain. Vera went to stay with the Crowes. Heard that Teddie has had fever again & will not be able to go to India.

9^th Month SEPTEMBER 1921 30 Days

Bingfield 1 Sept THURSDAY [244 -121]

Drizzling rain nearly all day. Brady, McDonald, and I cut a lot of branches off two thorn trees on the lower walk.

Wrote to Teddie.

Bingfield 2 FRIDAY [245 -120]

Fine. The Waggs went to Drumroe & May & Laila to Cavan.

Bingfield 3 SATURDAY [246 -119]

Fine. Oats being carted. May & Laila to tennis in Cavan.

Bingfield 4 SUNDAY [247 -118]

15 after Trinity. Mohammedan Year 1340 begins

Fine. May & Laila to Church. Wrote to Pat.

Bingfield 5 MONDAY [247 -117]

Fine & warm. Oats carting. Did a lot of odd jobs.

Bingfield 6 TUESDAY [249 -116]

Order Letts’s “Quikref” Diary for 1922

Sunny & warm. Oats carting. Wrote to Ralph.

Bingfield 7 WEDNESDAY [250 -115]

Laila & I went to the Cavan Show. My Cart mare got a second prize.

Bingfield 8 THURSDAY [251 -114]

Fine but cloudy. Fencing in Clerkins field & weed cutting in the Bell grove. The rest to the Smiths.

Bingfield 9 FRIDAY [252 -113]

Drove into Cavan morn. on business. Mrs. Burrowes & Polly called. Wet evening.

9^th Month SEPTEMBER 1921 30 Days

Bingfield 10 SATURDAY [253 -112]

Fine with showers. Men cleaning the drive etc. The rest to a children’s tennis tournament.

Bingfield 11 SUNDAY [254 -111]

16 after Trinity

Fine The rest to church. Wrote to King.

Bingfield 12 MONDAY [255 -110]

Fine. The last oats cut. Straw carting for thatch.

Bingfield 13 TUESDAY [256 -109]

Showery. Brady took cattle to Cavan fair, but sold none.

The Dopping Hepenstals & baby came to tea. Wrote to Tissington about selling & re-purchasing demesne.

Bingfield 14 WEDNESDAY [257 -108]

Fine. Oak stacks thatched. Vera went back to school.

Bingfield 15 THURSDAY [258 -107]

Fine. Haystacks being thatched etc. Odd jobs.

Bingfield 16 FRIDAY [259 -106]

Fine & sunny. Men clearing up generally. Sent back my Kelvin tap to Liverpool, as it arrived defective. Peace conference at Inverness cancelled.

Bingfield 17 SATURDAY [260 -105]

Fine, but cold. May left to take Laila to Rostrevor

Bingfield 18 SUNDAY [261 -104]

17 after Trinity

Quiet day at home.

Bingfield 19 MONDAY [262 -103]

Fine. Repairs to the demesne wall. May came home.

Bingfield 20 TUESDAY [263 -102]

Fine. Manure carting to Monery. Strike on M. G. W. & no papers. Repaired a flu rack made years ago.

Maude Godley called.

Bingfield 21 WEDNESDAY [264 -101]

Fine. Manure carting to Monery. Drove to Cavan on business

Bingfield 22 THURSDAY [265 -100]

Find – manure carting & weed cutting in the lower garden.

9^th Month SEPTEMBER 1921 30 Days

Bingfield 23 FRIDAY [266 -99]

Fine until the evening, when heavy rain came on. Manure carting

Atkinson called. Put up a notice against trespassers in the Rocks instead of one put up and torn down yesterday.

Bingfield 24 SATURDAY [267 -98]

Fine & sunny. Wrote to Teddie. Saw Scott about the damage done by the cottagers to our walls, hedges etc.

Bingfield 25 SUNDAY [268 -97]

18 after Trinity

Fine & sunny. Quiet day at home.

Bingfield 26 MONDAY [269 -96]

Fine & sunny. Manure spreading in Monery. Replaced the Scullery tap which had been mended. Repaired the cover of May’s sewing machine. Gathered apples, pears, & barberries.

Bingfield 27 TUESDAY [270 -95]

Fine & sunny. Manure spreading. Wrote to Florie who sent me some old letters & notebooks, and to Ralph.

Bingfield 28 WEDNESDAY [271 -94]

Fine & warm. Ploughing begun in Monery.

[Some words written in another language]

Bingfield 29 THURSDAY [272 -93]

Michaelmas Day. Quarter Day

Fine & sunny. Two stacks of oats thrashed.

Bingfield 30 FRIDAY [273 -92]

Fine & sunny. Ploughing in Monery etc. The Atkinsons to tea.

10^th Month OCTOBER 1921 31 Days

Bingfield 1 Oct SATURDAY [274 -91]

Fine. May & I drove to Derry Casseu by motor, lunched there & came home at 6.30 P. M. Ran over a dog on the way home.

Bingfield 2 SUNDAY [275 -90]

19 after Trinity

Hot & stuffy – wet even. Wrote to Vida & Teddie.

Bingfield 3 MONDAY [276 -89]

Jewish Year 5682 begins

Hot & stuffy with some rain. Got the Evinrude into order & tested it on the pond etc. Ploughing in Monery & men in the garden. Mrs. Baird called.

10^th Month OCTOBER 1921 31 Days

Bingfield 4 TUESDAY [277 -88]

Went on the lake with Brady & borrowed guns to try for duck. Ran nearly to Derryheen. A lot of engine trouble.

Bingfield 5 WEDNESDAY [278 -87]

Fine & warm. Potatoe digging. May went to a mother’s meeting at Balintemple with Mrs. Atkinson.

Bingfield 6 THURSDAY [279 -86]

Fine & warm. Potatoe digging. Repaired the umbrella stand.

Bingfield 7 FRIDAY [280 -85]

Fine & warm. Potatoe digging. Wrote to Teddie & King.

Bingfield 8 SATURDAY [281 -84]

Fine & warm. Potatoe digging. James Brady was driven away from thrashing at Balintemple by Sinn Fein threats, & brought his machine here.

Bingfield 9 SUNDAY [282 -83]

20 after Trinity

Fine & sunny. May & I to church.

Bingfield 10 MONDAY [283 -82]

Fine & warm. Potatoe digging. John & I got rid of a lot of flies from behind the shutters in various rooms.

Bingfield 11 TUESDAY [284 -81]

Warm with light rain. Brady took cattle to Cavan fair, but failed to sell any – no buyers. Hear that the Rorkes & Longs are boycotted from getting goods from Belfast.

Bingfield 12 WEDNESDAY [285 -80]

Michaelmas Law Sittings begin

Brady went to Ballybay on his own business. Potatoe sorting. Gathered apples etc.

Bingfield 13 THURSDAY [286 -79]

Fine & warm. Gathered the rest of the apples off the large tree. The Waggs went to Drumroe.

Bingfield 14 FRIDAY [287 -78]

Fire Insurances expire

Drove into Cavan morn. on business.

Bingfield 15 SATURDAY [288 -77]

Fine & warm Potatoe sorting. Did a small repair to my writing table.

Bingfield 16 SUNDAY [289 -76]

21 after Trinity

May to church. Quiet day at home.

10^th Month OCTOBER 1921 31 Days

Bingfield 17 MONDAY [290 -75]

Quarter Sessions Week

Wet & warm. Men cutting firewood etc. Ordered boots & shoes from London. Tried to mount a diamond drill, but lost the diamond. Antiquarian Society meeting even.

Bingfield 18 TUESDAY [291 -74]

Teddie came home by mid day train. Apple gathering & clearing up in the lower garden. Wrote to Father Meehan[1]

Bingfield 19 WEDNESDAY [292 -73]

Fine except for a little rain. Men in the garden. Read a little Hindustani with Teddie

Bingfield 20 THURSDAY [293 -72]

Read Hindustani with Teddie morn. After lunch, he had fever & had to go to bed. Cut out a picture frame for him. Men picking Potatoes.

Bingfield 21 FRIDAY [294 -71]

Nelson Day (1805)

Colder, raw, & damp. Teddie out in the afternoon. Ground being got ready for wheat sowing. Wrote a long letter to H. H. Story of the Scottish Rifles.

Bingfield 22 SATURDAY [295 -70]

Cold but some sun. Wheat sown, & some cleaning in the garden.

Bingfield 23 SUNDAY [296 -69]

22 after Trinity

Wet morn. fine aft. Only Teddie to church.

Bingfield 24 MONDAY [297 -68]

Fine & sunny. Mangolds gathering. May & Teddie to Cavan.

Bingfield 25 TUESDAY [298 -67]

Fine & warm. Potatoe picking.

Bingfield 26 WEDNESDAY [299 -66]

Fine & warm. Repaired the wheel of the dog cart.

Bingfield 27 THURSDAY [300 -65]

Fine, warm & sunny. Men in garden.

Bingfield 28 FRIDAY [301 -64]

Drove into Cavan on business. Fine & warm. Potatoe digging.

Mrs. Jackson called.

Bingfield 29 SATURDAY [302 -63]

Fine & warm. Potatoe digging.

10^th Month OCTOBER 1921 31 Days

Bingfield 30 SUNDAY [303 -62]

Fine & warm. We all went to church.

Bingfield 31 MONDAY [304 -61]

Find & warm. Men at Potatoes. The Scotts to tea. Askins came & gave us some rather disconcerting news. Walked to Kevilt & signed Ret. Pay Voucher. Posted it on my way home.

11^th Month NOVEMBER 1921 30 Days

Bingfield 1 Nov TUESDAY [305 -60]

Holiday, Stock Exchange

Fine & sunny. May & Teddie drove into Cavan to make arrangements about our plate etc. Men covering Potatoes etc.

Bingfield 2 WEDNESDAY [306 -59]

Not very well. In bed till lunch. Sent my photo to Os & Evie

Wet day. Men cutting firewood.

Bingfield 3 THURSDAY [307 -58]

Find & sunny. Signed another Ret. Pay Voucher before Dr. Smith. Ferretted & got 5 rabbits. Sent a large box of plate, linen & books to the bank.

Bingfield 4 FRIDAY [308 -57]

Find & warm. Men in the garden. Not over well, both of us.

Bingfield 5 SATURDAY [309 -56]

Fine morn. Wet aft. Men in the garden. Wired to White King that I will go to him on Monday.

Bingfield 6 SUNDAY [310 -55]

24 after Trinity

Fine & warm. Packed up.

Bingfield & Dublin 7 MONDAY [311 -54] 37 Trinity College

Teddie & I took the morn. train for Broadstone. Louis Smith’s son with us. Lunch with King at Trinity. Met Teddie at Alexandra Coll. & saw Vera. Did some shopping. Dined at Killdare St. Club with King. Went to the Brodsky concert at the Royal Dublin Society.

Dublin 8 TUESDAY [312 -53]

Got my teeth fixed morn. & did some shopping. Began to arrange King’s books. Took Vera to the J. B’s, but they were out, so went on to tea at Mitchell’s. Wrote to May.

Dublin 9 WEDNESDAY [313 -52]

Arranged books morn. called on the Croziers – out. A little shopping.

11^th Month NOVEMBER 1921 30 Days

Dublin 10 THURSDAY [314 -51]

Wrote to May. Worked at King’s books. Called & saw Mrs. J. B.

Took Vera to La Scala for Kinema & tea. Dined as usual at the Killdare St. Club.

Dublin 11 FRIDAY [315 -50]

Armistice declared, 1918. Martinmas -- Scottish Quarter Day.

Half Quarter Day

Worked at books morn & aft. saw Burrowes at the Elpis hospital.

Saw Vera to arrange about tomorrow. Dined with the J. Bs & went to the “Courting of Mary Doyle” at the Abbey Theatre with J. B.

Wrote to May & Teddie.

Dublin 12 SATURDAY [316 -49]

Worked at books morn. Took Vera out to lunch & to the Abbey Theatre with J. B.

Wrote to May & Teddie.

Dublin 12 SATURDAY [316 -49]

Worked at books morn. Took Vera out to lunch & to the Abbey Theatre – Same piece as last night.

Dublin 13 SUNDAY [317 -48]

25 after Trinity

Met Vera at St. Anne’s Church. Took her to lunch with the J. Bs & then on to the Zoo.

Bingfield 14 MONDAY [318 -47]

Came home by 9 .a.m. train.

Bingfield 15 TUESDAY [319 -46]

Windy but fine. Mended May’s spectacle case, my braces, & the large cellar door. May packing up to leave to morrow.

Bingfield 16 WEDNESDAY [320 -45]

May left by early train for London. Hewed an axe. Send a P. O. 7/-. Wrote to King, and began a letter to May. Men cleaning up the Lawn etc.

Bingfield 17 THURSDAY [321 -44]

Fine & sunny. Ferretted & got 5 rabbits. Men cleaning the lawn.

Bingfield 18 FRIDAY [322 -43]

Fine & a little warmer. The last of my oats thrashed

Bingfield 19 SATURDAY [323 -42]

Fine. Brady’s call and thrashed. Wrote to May & Teddie who has been given more leave.

Bingfield 20 SUNDAY [324 -41]

Cold & raw. Quiet day at home.

11^th Month NOVEMBER 1921 30 Days

Bingfield 21 MONDAY [325 -40]

Got the boats off the lake. Altered the library grate so as to make it an open hearth, & much improved it by doing so.

Bingfield 22 TUESDAY [326 -39]

Drove into Cavan for shopping. Wrote to Lord Farnham about the rent of Farnadaly. Men cleaning the road cutting.

Bingfield 23 WEDNESDAY [327 -38]

Rather seedy. Men hedging along the Crossdoney Road.

Bingfield 24 THURSDAY [328 -37]

Warm & damp. Men hedging along Crossdoney Road. Wrote to May and Ralph from whom I received Vol III of Âzâd. Sent it to Browne & Nolan for binding.

Bingfield 25 FRIDAY [329 -36]

Warm & damp. Men hedging on Crossdoney Road.

Bingfield 26 SATURDAY [330 -35]

Men hedging on Crossdoney Road. Waggon of coal came from Dublin.

Bingfield 27 SUNDAY [331 -34]

1 in Advent

Indigestion a little better. Quiet day. Wrote to Basil.

Bingfield 28 MONDAY [332 -33]

Damp & some rain. Men wheeling in coal. Wrote to Evie & May

Cut the legs of the library grate. Sent Anglo Celts to Basil.

Bingfield 29 TUESDAY [333 -32]

Brady & I marked trees at the back of the Lodge. Took down the small fowls house. Fine & warm.

Bingfield 30 WEDNESDAY [334 -31]

Fine but colder. Wrote to May. Men hedging along the road.

Ferretted and got 5 rabbits

Three rabbits sold 3/-

12^th Month DECEMBER 1921 31 Days

Bingfield 1 Dec [335 -30]

Dark & gloomy. Men hedging. Wrote to Teddie.

8 Rabbits sold 8/-

12^th Month DECEMBER 1921 31 Days

Bingfield 2 FRIDAY [336 -29]

Fine. Men thinning the wood behind the Lodge.

2 Rabbits sold 2/-

~~Lent Brady 9/6~~ Paid in full

Bingfield 3 SATURDAY [337 -28]

Men thinning the small wood. Ferretted & got 7 Rabbits.

Saw Emma & Eddie Stone at Lisnamandra

Bingfield 4 SUNDAY [338 -27]

2 in Advent

Morn. service & dedication of a monument to the late Dean Stone.

Eddie Stone took part of the service.

Bingfield 5 MONDAY [339 -26

Muggy day. Men hedging on the Back Lane. Heard from & wrote to May.

2 Rabbits sold 2/-

Bingfield 6 TUESDAY [340 -25]

Muggy & damp. Called on Burrowes, who is in bed. Lunch there.

Horse “Charlie” clipped.

Rabbit sold 1/-

Bingfield 7 Wednesday [341 -24]

Fine but dull. Agreement reached with Sinn Fein. Heard from & wrote to May. Men hedging on back lane. Flax loaded on a cart.

Paid Wagg’s rent £1.15 .9

Bingfield 8 THURSDAY [342 -23]

Holiday for the men, apparently for the peace. Flax sent to Cavan.

5 Rabbits sold 5/-

Bingfield 9 FRIDAY [343 -22]

Brady & Cox went early to Cavan, but found there was no flax market at Lisnaskea. Left the flax in Cavan. Got a large hole in the stable floor repaired. De Valera issues a manifesto rejecting the peace terms.

Bingfield 10 SATURDAY [344 -21]

Men hedging on the lane. Ferretted & got 10 rabbits

3 Rabbits sold 3/-

12^th Month DECEMBER 1921 31 Days

Bingfield 11 SUNDAY [345 – 20]

3 in Advent

Not at all well. Got Dr. Smith to send for Clarke. He says my heart is very bad. Orders rest etc. Got him to write to May.

Bingfield 12 MONDAY [346 -19]

A good deal better. Wrote to May, & sent letters written yesterday to Oswald & Evie. Dr. & Mrs. Smith called. Askins also called & stayed to dinner.

4 Rabbits sold 4/-

Bingfield 13 TUESDAY [347 -18]

Brady sold 4 beasts for me for only £62 Fine day. Rested

1 Rabbit sold 1/-

Bingfield 14 WEDNESDAY [348 -17]

Drizzling rain. Men hedging in Unfort: field. Drove to Cavan & signed an affidavit in Halpins Office about Succession duty. Sent it with a letter to Rooke. Wrote to May & Teddie.

Suet 1/-

Bingfield 15 THURSDAY [349 -16]

Brady & Cox ferreted & got 8 rabbits. Wrote to May & Vera

Fine but dark & cloudy.

4 Rabbits sold 4/-

Bingfield 16 FRIDAY [350 -15]

Brady sold my last years flax in Cootehill – it only fetched 9/-a stone for £41. Sent to meet Teddie & Laila in Cavan, but heard later through the Scotts that Laila was at the Stacks & Teddie ill in London. Wired to May not to hurry home. Mrs. Burrowes & Polly called, & said Burrowes was able to go out in a chair.

Bingfield 17 SATURDAY [351 – 14]

Fine day. Heard from & wrote to May, Teddie, & Fran.

Cox away at his mothers funeral. Men hedging near the lodge

Bingfield 18 SUNDAY [352 -13]

4 in Advent

Dull & drizzling. Telegram from Bessie that May cannot travel for a month. Rested, & wrote to Bessie, Vida, & Charlie.

12^th Month DECEMBER 1921 31 Days

Bingfield 19 MONDAY [353 -12]

Rain. Men hedging & ferreting. Drove into Cavan for letters but found none. Began a letter to May

1 Rabbit Sold 1/-

Bingfield 20 TUESDAY [354 -11]

Wrote to May & Mrs. Storey of Tanjore. Wired to Bessie & heard from her that May has heart trouble. Teddie wires that he & Laila are coming home. They arrived about 7.30.

Bingfield 21 WEDNESDAY [355 -10]

Michaelmas Law Sittings end

Dull & damp. Vera arrived midday. Heard from Bessie & wrote to May. Also from the Minimax agent about the trouble with refills

4 Rabbits sold 4/-

Bingfield 22 THURSDAY [356 -9]

Cold & inclined to frost. Teddie & Vera drove to Cavan for shopping. Men hedging & ferreting. Wrote to May & Mary Freeman

Bingfield 23 FRIDAY [257 -8]

Colder. Ferretted a little & got 4 Rabbits.

3 Rabbits sold 3/-

Bingfield 24 SATURDAY [358 -]

Dull & damp.Wrote to May.

Bingfield 25 SUNDAY [359 -6]