School: Irishtown
- Location:
- Milltown, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: Margaret McNally
![The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0742, Page 097](https://doras.gaois.ie/cbes/CBES_0742%2FCBES_0742_097.jpg?width=1600&quality=85)
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0742, Page 097
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Irishtown
- XML Page 097
- XML “Local Heroes - A Good Runner”
- XML “Local Heroes - A Good Runner”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- (continued from previous page)He never kept a dog.
- Long ago there lived in may parish a great runner named Thomas Greaghan. One day he was at a sports in Ballynacargy and he was going to run in a foot race because he was a great runner.
He won the race and was very warm. He drank a cup of cold water and that night he got pneumonia.
After many weeks he got better and when he was a month he lost the power of his legs.- Collector
- Donal Fox
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Irishtown, Co. Westmeath
- Informant
- Andy Murphy
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 74
- Occupation
- Pensioner
- Address
- Churchtown, Co. Westmeath