School: Coolfancy, Tinahely
- Location:
- Coolafancy, Co. Wicklow
- Teacher: Dll. Ó Conaill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0922, Page 046
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- In olden times the generation was far stronger than at present. There is an old man living near my home who used to carry a 2 cwt bag of phosphate under each arm.There is another man not far from my home who carried a plough on his back for a quarter of a mile.I often hear my father saying that an old man in Shillelagh carried a plough on one shoulder and the stone roller on the other for about half a mile.
- Collector
- P. Ó Beacháin
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Hillbrook Lower, Co. Wicklow
- Informant
- Mrs Jordan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Coolboy, Co. Wicklow
