School: Druim Bréan Lios (roll number 15029)
- Location:
- Drumbreanlis, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Eibhlín Nic Ghuidhir
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0228, Page 103
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- Forty three years ago lived in Gortermore a man named Robert McAvenna. He was 6 ft 3 inches in height. He often got in under a plough and ploughed a lea field without a horse.
He used to get under a cart and draw it to the well and bring home a barrel of water while neighing like a horse. He often carried on his back 6 cwt of potatoes in a sack.
He carried 1 cwt of potatoes in a creel in his teeth.
- Informant
- Hugh Duffy
- Gender
- Male
- About 30 years ago a man called Thomas Kiernan Gulladoo was digging potatoes in a field and found about 30 pieces of silver belonging to the reign of Queen Anne of England (as was proved afterwards).
- Informant
- Hugh Duffy
- Gender
- Male
