School: Eiscreach (roll number 13945)
- Location:
- Eskeragh, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Seán Ó Raghallaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0153, Page 194
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- (continued from previous page)was unable to do so as his lameness hindered him but he quickly crawled over it and both men were again on the road leading to their homes. They ran at least a quarter of a mile in the field and the race which was not yet ended was five and a quarter miles.
The chase continued as far as the old school in Richmond which is one and a half miles from the wall which they crossed at Richmond farm. In the yard of the school Michael overtook the exhausted Jimmy and delivered him of the coveted halfpenny.
Michael went to England soon afterwards and I never heard anything about him since. Jimmy never left home but always worked for a man near his native village. He died in Ballina Poor House at the age of seventy three years.
- Collector
- Seán S. Ó Raghallaigh
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Múinteoir
- Address
- Eskeragh, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Anthony Barrett
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballinloughaun, Co. Mayo
