School: Woodland (roll number 8464)
- Location:
- Woodland, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Mrs Crossan
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1085, Page 70
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- (continued from previous page)James Clarke who used to live in Barn-hill could dance a horn-pipe on a door-step after coming from digging a drain in the Isles.
- John McGarvey who is now dead was another great thrower. He could throw a stone of fifteen pounds a distance of nineteen yards.Dan Cullen of Ramelton was able to carry a five hundredweight pack of grain. Another man named Hynes of Ramelton is a great weight lifter. He can lift two four stone weights, one in each hand and hold them straight above his head for about fifteen minutes at a time.There was a man named O'Donnell from Rathmullen who could run a distance of one mile and a half in less than twenty minutes.Henry Morrow of Ballymaleel walked a distance of thirteen miles and back again on a certain day of every month to a fair in Spranorlow.Neil Doherty who is now dead was another great walker. He used to walk to Derry from Ramelton. Roger Deeney was a great story-teller. Henry Crossman(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Thompson
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Glebe, Co. Donegal
