School: Druim Mór (roll number 16278)
- Location:
- Dromore, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Seosamh Ó Catháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0166, Page 196
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- Once an officer of the Free State army and a native of Dromahair had a very swift horse. He had the horse at a show once and boasted of his swiftness to everybody. In the evening a man named O'Donnell from Leitrim told the officer his horse was not swift at all, because he said, he would strive him on foot and beat him. The officer made a bet of £5 with him that he would not beat him. A light jockey rode the horse and the race began. The race was from Dromahair to Rosse's Point and back again, a distance of about twenty miles. O'Donnell and the horse ran that twenty miles without resting. O'Donnell was at the end of the race in one-and-a half hours and he was there about five minutes before the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Joe Cleary
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Pat Cleary
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 40
- Address
- Rathgoonaun, Co. Sligo
