School: Mount Stewart, Ceapach Chuinn
- Location:
- Mountstuart, Co. Waterford
- Teacher: Úna, Bean Uí Chonaire
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0643, Page 194
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- There was a man living near us. He was a great story-teller. His name was Bill Sullivan. My uncle Paddy walked from Wexford town to this place in a day and a night without food or drink.
Bill Sullivan and Davey Foley had a bet one day in Dungarvan to see which of them would go out the farthest in the sea. They started off and when they came to a certain point they were taken by the tide and brought under the water because they went out beyond their depth. They crept in under the water and they followed one another and it was by luck they were going the right way. They came safe.
John Tom Drohan jumped the piers bounding Willie Neills and Briens which are about twelve feet apart. Dick Connell and Tom Drohan were the best mowers in the place.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Shalloe
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Knocknaglogh Upper, Co. Waterford
