School: Borrisoleigh, Glenkeen (roll number 590)
- Location:
- Buiríos Ó Luigheach, Co. Thiobraid Árann
- Teacher: Tomás de Búrca
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0544, Page 312
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- Jack Fitzpatrick. Ballydaff. Borrisoleigh caught the hair of a rabitt by running after him. Tim Ryan Cullohill Borrisoleigh was a great mower he used to cover an acre of hay in a days work
- Collector
- Brigid Kennedy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Baile an Deafa, Co. Thiobraid Árann
- Informant
- William Fogarty
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 70
- Address
- An Chúlchoill, Co. Thiobraid Árann
- A man named John Carey lived in Glastrigan and he is dead only thirty five years he used often walk to Limerick and back again the same day, a distance of forty miles, On one occasion a woman passed him out four miles outside Limerick and beat John into Limerick and felt very small indeed, walking twenty miles after a hard days work. His nephew John Kennedy Knockahorna Borrisoleigh. John was as fleet as a raindeer and an expert hurler. He captured the Foilnamon club for several years, and they were never beaten. In running races he was always invincible as a wrestler. He was equal in his day although of his built jiant proportions. went under the bout(continues on next page)
