School: Gurteen, Ballymahon
- Location:
- Gorteenclareen, Co. Longford
- Teacher: F. Ó Murchadha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0751, Page 092
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- Pat Rock
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Daroge, Co. Longford
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- Pat Rock
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- Relative (other than parent or grandparent)
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 74
- Address
- Daroge, Co. Longford
- Sandy McCord that lives on the canal banks is supposed to have tied two half - hundred weights together with a rope. Then he hung them from his little finger and then he wrote his name on the door of Shrule mills.
