School: Woodland (roll number 8464)
- Location:
- Woodland, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Mrs Crossan
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1085, Page 69
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- (continued from previous page)Willie Hatrick is a good diver.
Willie Hatrick is a good runner. He caught a rabbit by running after it. He was walking along the side of a field one day when he saw a rabbit. He ran after it an caught it by the tail.
- There lived in Rosemount, Letterkenny about twenty years ago a well known ragman called John Love. It was known that on several occasions he wheeled a barrow from Letterkenny to Derry the weight of his barrow being fifteen hundredweight. On one occasion he was fined for drawing this enormous weight.
a man lived at Crieve, Letterkenny, called Martin. He left Letterkenny about nine oclock in the moonlight. He walked to Dublin, did his business and returned on foot within three days. - Collector
- Eileen Boyle
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Carnamogagh Lower, Co. Donegal
- A man named Matthew McMahon, who formerly lived in Glenallen could carry three hundred weight of oat-meal up stone steps when he was only seventeen.
Mrs Joseph Boyle of Castlewray could mow an acre and a half in one day.(continues on next page)
