So what does it say on his death cert.?? He appeared not to die at Ballamona

Hospital or the Poor House & so what does the inquest reveal about where died?

As for being a Navvy --the expression was in frequent use here [no canals etc.]

when I was young for men who worked for the Highwayboard making the roads.

On Sunday last I went on the Heritage Weekend trip to Smeale Farm . The owner,

Mr Steve Martin, showed us a tumbledown building in the yard & also a picture from

long ago of a little house where casual labourers slept , some were wanderers who

worked awhile for food & digs & then went off to another farm that took their fancy.