School: Threemilehouse (roll number 342)
- Location:
- Three Mile House, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: I. Mc Eneaney
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- (continued from previous page)a famous song (Is) Monaghan like what it used to be.)Patrick Mc Ginnity, Dromsheeny, Threemilehouse, Monaghan, for a pint of whiskey jumped six feet six inches high on the County road, and master Mc Cormilla jumped six feet.In the townland of Togan there was a man named James Mc Connon. One day he was in the town of Monaghan and he saw and he saw a man carying a two cwt bag of meal. And James said to the man I wish I had a bag of meal like that and the man said back to him I will buy you one if you carry it home which was a distance of four miles, he was allowed two rests on his way. He carried it home and won the bag of meal. Patrick Mc Guinnity, Drumsheeny, Monaghan, shoveled a footridge across two hedges and a lane, the width of the lane was elevn feet and the height of the hedges were five feet.James Mc Enaney, Coretard, Monaghan, put four cwts of potatoes on his back and(continues on next page)
