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School: Baile an Churraigh

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Ballincurry, Co. Galway
Teacher:
A. L. Ó Maoileannaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0015, Page 566

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    Local Heroes
    1. Peter Conor of Cill Cloch was a set butt of a man weighing 16 st and is supposed to have carried a weight of 7 cwts on his back.
    2. There was once a man and he had power of saving anyone from being hanged. He had a daughter and she was very homely looking. This day he saw the police taking a man to be hanged and he sent the daughter out to stop him and he would save him if he would marry her. He looked at the girl and he told the driver to drive on. It cant be any worse.
    3. John Dunne of Cill Cloch was going Ballygar and Ned Grady was stopping him from crossing his
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. agents (~1)
      1. historical persons (~5,068)
    Folktales index
    AT1894: The Man Shoots a Ramrod Full of Ducks
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Marion Dowd
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Ballincurry, Co. Galway
    Informant
    Padraic Ó Dhubhdha
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Ballincurry, Co. Galway