Stratford, River Slaney. John MONTGOMERY in his Reminiscences recalls fights between the lads from Baltinglass and those from nearby Stratford. He also wrote: "Before leaving Salem, I remonstrated with Mr. GUSH respecting the place he was living in. Some rain had fallen, and the river had been almost to the level of the platform before the door. I told him I had seen the river Slaney, that comes down from the mountains of the county of Wicklow after a flood, laden with large deposits of brushwood, grass, weeds, and other debris, and that these were left in the fork of the trees on the banks of the stream; and the debris on the opposite side, as I had already pointed out, were brought there by the same means."
Photo by Sue Mackay.