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School: Cluain Tuirc (C.)

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Cloonturk, Co. Leitrim
Teacher:
Máire Ní Gharaidh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0217, Page 081

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    Description
    Short fat quick tempered
    Feats
    Sailed round the world three times w
    Age
    About 34 yrs now
    Address
    Drumlin Dromod
    Tinker and boxes "Chat" Beirne
    Address
    Foxboro, Jamestown, Carrick on Shannon
    Trained
    He was a militia man and was trained to fight by a policeman
    Feats
    1) Defeated Thomas Oats at Carrick
    2) Challenged the English light weight Tommy Burns Liverpool who used visit Dromod but was defeated in a bout with Tommy Burns in Cloonturk Hall in 1920 or thereabouts
    Witnesses
    All the locals of that time gathered in to see the first boxing match of real interest in these parts.
    Runner
    No I Fred Notley Dromodbeg Dromod
    Age 72 years
    Feat
    Raced the mail train to Dromod from Dromodbeg to give a forgotten umbrella to his mother.
    Author
    Himself
    Runner No 2
    "Dr" Charlie Reynolds Esker
    Age 89 yrs
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. agents (~1)
      1. historical persons (~5,068)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Peggy Newton
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    15
    Address
    Moherrevan, Co. Leitrim
    Informant
    Mrs Tommy Newton
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    45
    Address
    Moherrevan, Co. Leitrim