School: Cill Uachtair
- Location:
- Highwood, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Bríd, Bean Uí Dhubhghaill
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- (continued from previous page)John Flynn and Paddy Gallaher. Their trade was very good in those days because there were no motors nor many trains and the people had to travel everywhere by horse.
- In Ballindoon in the parish of Geevagh in Country Sligo lived a famous wrestler and weight-thrower named Charlie Gilleen. This name was known all over Ireland. He used to jump over six feet which was a record at the time. He could throw the half-hundred weight twenty-nine feet without a fellow.
One night a man named Thomas Mitchel from Ballycolman (who was alive up to twenty years ago) was going to Sligo with a horse-cart of oats, sixteen hundred weight. When he was going down Ballinasiamra bray, near Ballymote; the cart got stuck in a hole and he could not get it out. Charlie and Hugh Gillen came along the road and lifted the load safely to the road. - Collector
- Máire Ní Dhuibhne
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- John J. Devine
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Highwood, Co. Sligo
