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School: Clonshough

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Clonshagh, Co. Dublin
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C. Ní Bhroin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0792, Page 433

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    he could go no farther because the floods stopped him at Newry.
    Collected by C. McGuinness, Belcamp, Raheny, Co. Dublin.
    26.2.38
    I heard of a local hero named Harris who lived in Santry.
    He ran from O'Connell's Bridge to Drogheda Bridge in about two hours and a half.
    At a sports in Croke Park he challenged the best trotting pony in Ireland in a ten mile race.
    He got an odds of two laps and the pony only beat him by eight yards.
    Collected by Molly Moran,
    Elm Park, Beaumont, Drumcondra.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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