School: Coillíní Carrowkelly (roll number 7054)
- Location:
- Culleens, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: M. Ó Brádaigh
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- (continued from previous page)years and is built with great big stones and no cement. A great many people worked on this bridge and among was two who were of matchless strength one was known as Seán mór Walshe so called because he was strong and the other was a man called Morrison of Bunnyfenglus. One day Walshe challenged Morrison. Walshe took the stone weighing about five hundred and walked up the bridge. Morrison than took it and walked up the bridge farther than Walshe. Walshe got vexed and jumped upon his back but Morrison carried both stone and man for ten yards when he was letting fall off his back it tore his clothes (and tore the flesh off his back). Shortly after this he went to America where he died.
Near my own village there is a village called Carrowkelly and there lives a man called John Whyte and he is a very small man, the smallest man in the place and he is able to straighten his hand with a half hundred on it.
About five miles(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Mr James O' Hora
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Rathroeen, Co. Mayo
