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Not long since the bridge of Oireamh, on the main road between Cathair na Mart and An Clochán, which had been swept away by a great flood, was allowed to ramin for some years unrestored, until the Grand Jury of Mayo could decide wheater the cost was to be defrayed by the neighbouring barony of the county at large. And to this day we have another instance of either local or county economy at the short cut made by the Government for the relief of the famine stricken people of Mayo and Galway, at Muinntir Eoin, between Mám and An Lionán, where for nearly the past twenty years the traveller has had to climb a steep hill, and had formerly to run the gauntlet of a ragged village, because neither the barony nor the county at large would put a bridge, value £200, over a mountain stream that crosses a most admirable, straight, level road. During the pasat summer a portion of the parapet on the bridge of Cong, in the county of Mayo, was allowed to remain for months unrepaired!