School: Virginia (B)
- Location:
- Virginia, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: E. Ó Raghallaigh
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- (continued from previous page)But if I went in the bee might for I have got no money,
So the boss finding him so good a poet brought him in and gave him plenty of whiskey. He wrote hundreds of poems forby this. He was also a great singer.
- Peter Reilly of Lavey Parish was a noted runner and jumper. He was well known to jump into two jump into two oil-barrells one after the other carrying a half hundred weight in each hand. He was the champion runner of the county. He lived to be the age of eighty three years and is now thirty years dead. He was married and had three children.
- Collector
- Matthias Reilly
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Virginia, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Frank King
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 68
- Address
- Deerpark, Co. Cavan
- Matt Lynch was born in Fartha in the Parish of Lurgan. He was supposed to be the strongest man in the locality. He was unmarried and lived to be eight five years and die(continues on next page)
