School: Cill Tártáin

Location:
Kiltartan, Co. Galway
Teacher:
Mícheál Ó Tuathaigh
Browse
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0047, Page 0133

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0047, Page 0133

Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.

See copyright details.

Download

Open data

Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

  1. XML School: Cill Tártáin
  2. XML Page 0133
  3. XML “Local Heroes”
  4. XML “Local Heroes - The Quinn Brothers (Hurlers)”

Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.

On this page

  1. There was born in Crow St. Gort about 60 years ago a man named Jack Jordan. Jack was six feet, six inches high, and was 24 stone weight.
    He cold lift any man in Gort with his teeth. He could throw his cousin Mick Jordan twenty yards.
    Jack and Mick were born on the same night. Jack was a giant, and Mick is a dwarf. Jack died sometime ago, and Mick is still living.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
  2. You are not logged in, but you are welcome to contribute a transcription anonymously. In this case, your IP address will be stored in the interest of quality control.
    (continues on next page)
    Transcription guide »
    By clicking the save button you agree that your contribution will be available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License and that a link to dúchas.ie is sufficient as attribution.
    Topics
    1. agents (~1)
      1. historical persons (~5,068)
    Language
    English