School: Cloonsarn (roll number 16025)

Location:
Lisgillock Glebe, Co. Leitrim
Teacher:
Peter Kilkenny
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    Mass before 12-noon. You are my only hope".
    "All right, Father", said Michael. "No trouble to me with the help of God". In five minutes Michael was off - that is at 10.35. Father Dunne then went back to his house. Soon he was out again and of course was looking towards the West.
    At 11.50 the priest recognised the big frame of Michael passing group after group of the Mass people coming near the chapel. At 11.55 Michael stood at the Sacristy door and the bottle of Altar Wine to Father Dunne. That means Michael O'Farrell travelled or ran a journey of 17 or 18 miles in one house and twenty minutes. Michael O'Farrell told me this story in his old age more that once. Several old men of his time told it in the neighbourhood and said they often heard their fathers say that they were witnesses to Father Dunne telling it again and again.
    This Michael O'Farrell was also strong strong as well as fleet of foot. He once for a bet of 1/2 pint of whiskey, then worth five pence lifted a horse's cart weighing seven and a half hundreds weight.
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    Topics
    1. agents (~1)
      1. historical persons (~5,068)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Peter Kilkenny
    Gender
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