School: Brosna (roll number 12572)
- Location:
- Brusna, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Tomás Mac Carúin
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- There was once a Barnaboy a man named Michael Towey who was one of the best walkers in the Brusna district.
Every year when he was going to ENgland as a migratory labourer he walked to Drogheda, for in those times it was the nearest a train could be taken from. If he got tired before he reached there he took off his shoes and walked in his socks. Others did the journey a few times, but he continued doing it longer than anyone else.
He was also noted as being very good at turning and digging mould. He would turn about half a rood of land in the day, while he would dig about a rood of mould.
- Collector
- Margaret Towey
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Slieveroe, Co. Roscommon
- Informant
- Pat Towey
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 52
- Address
- Slieveroe, Co. Roscommon
