School: Cliffoney (B.) (roll number 13882)
- Location:
- Cliffony, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Patrick Mc Hugh
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- About fifty years ago a woman named Biddy Gaffney who lived in the townland of Drumfad, Parish of Ahamlish, Barony of Carbury, Co. Sligo walked a distance of thirty miles.
She left her house at five o clock in the morning on a certain day, and carried a basket of eggs and her shoes in her hands and walked in her bare feet to Sligo.
When she sold the eggs she bought a sack of meal which was twenty stone weight and carried it home on her back. She left Sligo at mid-day (12 o clock) and reached her house at five o'clock in the evening.
- Collector
- Patrick Mc Hugh
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Múinteoir
- Address
- Cliffony, Co. Sligo
- Informant
- James O' Connor
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 61
- Address
- Carns, Co. Sligo
