School: Ballymore (B.) (roll number 7443)
- Location:
- Ballymore, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: P.J. Cooney
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0743, Page 282
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- About a hundred year ago there was a man living in Corrick named Mullen. He was six feet high and was very strong. He used to bring a sack of potatoes about three cwt weight on a wheel barrow from his own house to Athlone, a distanct of about thirteen miles. He would come up to Ballymore and bring home a two cwt bag of meal on his shoulder. He used to wet the meal in a can with goats milk and he would eat it like stirabout. The ruins of the house in which he lived are still to be seen.
- Collector
- Patrick Cornelly
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Snimnagorta, Co. Westmeath
- Informant
- Peter Cornelly
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Snimnagorta, Co. Westmeath
