School: Muine Mór
- Location:
- Meenymore, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Liam Ó Briain
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- There lived in the townland of the Greenmountain a man named Pat Mac Geoy who took the digging of a half acre of potatoes. He had to walk a half mile to his work and he was able to dig twelve hundred of potatoes from that until night in hard clay ground.
Before he left home he ate his breakfast and his support from that until night was a roasted cast and salt. The cast being a few big potatoes roasted in a fire in the field. This was a small stout man and he died about fifty years ago. ByMichael Mac Morrow.
- Collector
- Michael Mac Morrow
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Gortnalibbert, Co. Leitrim
