School: Barradubh (Sixmilebridge)
- Location:
- Barraduff, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Dómhnall Ua Donnchadha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0457, Page 230
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- (continued from previous page)JOHN MICKY RIORDAN still lives at Knockanes in the parish of Glenflesk. He was very fond of horses and still is and would talk about them from morning till night. Once when he was a young man he "made up" a horse for Kanturk Horse Fair. As soon as he left his own home the horse being "mad for the road" started to trot and John Micky ran along "beside him" and they never stopped till they reached Kanturk nearly thirty miles away.
DAN KELLY of Carrigavana in the parish of Glenflesk used to take a half a sack of flour on his back from Headfort to his own home across the mountain from Draumcarbin. The mountain is about a thousand feet high.
TIM COOPER of Draum used take a plough on his shoulder from Liosnagrave to Draum.
JERH CONNELL (JERRY GEOFFRY) READMINAGH brought a sack of meal in his arms from Maggie Free's (Daly) yard to the road. He took it by Na Cluasanna and pitched it against the hill over a horse rail into his own car.
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