School: Cor na Muclach (roll number 14470)
- Location:
- Cornamucklagh North, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Annie Ryan
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- (continued from previous page)age. The journey was about a quarter of a mile mostly through fields and against a steep hill.
He used to carry out creels of manure on his back and many other things.
- About fifty years ago there was a man named John McWeeney who carried a sack of meal in his mouth about the distance of one hundred yards.
About forty years ago a man named Thomas Gilchrist who is still living in the townland of Cultha in Ballinaglera carried three and a half cwts. of potatoes on his back, a mile, without resting. - Informant
- Mr Michael Mc Govern
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 73
- Address
- Greaghnafarna, Co. Leitrim
- In olden times there were many famous runners in this parish. Some of the men were so swift that they were known(continues on next page)
