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School: Baile Gaedhaelach (C.)

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Irishtown, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Mrs Mc Manus
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0097, Page 621

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    Just where Mayo borders on Co. Galway there was a man named James Mannion, he was able to take six and seven hundred weights, and straighten four hundred weights.
    Mrs. Mc. Hugh near Ballindine was a great walker, she used to walk to Ballyhaunis and come back with a lot of parcels then she would cross the fields to Tuam and only for it would be too late she would not mind going another few miles.
    There was a man in Kilvine, Irishtown, called Michael Higgins he could run three miles in a quarter of an hour.
    I don't know of anyone that could catch rabbits by running
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. agents (~1)
      1. historical persons (~5,068)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Nancy Noonan
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Kilvine, Co. Mayo
    Informant
    Mrs Bridget Noonan
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Kilvine, Co. Mayo