School: Derrynananta
- Location:
- Derrynananta Lower, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Mrs O' Regan
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- (continued from previous page)it blows from the North in Winter it brings snow and frost.
If Candlemas day be calm and clear there will be two Winters in that year.
- John McGovern who lived in the townland of Tullycrofton in the parish of Glangevlin Co. Cavan was a very swift runner.
About fifty years ago there was a market in Enniskillen and almost every one was riding on horse back to it but John had to walk. He walked twenty miles to Enniskillen and when he was coming home he ran the post - horses from Enniskillen to Belcoo a distance of ten miles. He walked ten miles home afterwards. He must have been a very strong man too. He went to a man who was living about two miles from his house to work. The payment he wanted was a load of potatoes. The man was satisfied to give him the potatoes because he thought he would only be able to carry a hundred of potatoes. John emptied(continues on next page) - Collector
- Peggy Mc Govern
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Moneensauran, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Patrick Mc Govern
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 40
- Address
- Moneensauran, Co. Cavan
