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School: Cluain an Iubhair (roll number 15213)

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Cloonanure, Co. Sligo
Teacher:
Séamus Ó Háinlighe
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0187, Page 377

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    Patrick Casey, who was born in Derryngraug, and spent his last years in Mullaghroe was known as the "wheel cracking" because he was the best wheel wright in County Sligo. He was an extraordinary man as a mower, able for two statute acres in a day. It was said that he was as good as a one horse mowing - machine in a meadow. One day a poor widow asked him to mow a meadow of about three roods. When he came to mow the meadow the day was too hot so he sat down on a fence with a neighbouring man until dinner - time. He
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    History Edit
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Patrick Callaghan
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Clooneagh, Co. Sligo
    Informant
    Mr John Murray
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    72
    Address
    Clooneagh, Co. Sligo