School: Oram (roll number 8496)
- Location:
- Oram, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: P. McMahon
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0942, Page 359
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- In years long gone by a man called William Neil lived in the townland of Lisdoney. He walked to Armagh to buy a a donkey and cart. He purchased the cart but could not get a donkey to bring it home. Nothing daunted he took a grip of his cart and never stopped till he landed it in Lisdoney a distance of about 14 Irish miles. It would be a good days work to walk to Armagh and back but to take a donkey's cart that distance up hills of which there are many is a feat worth recording, for a man who was fifty years of age. That was done fortyfive years ago. He is now dead twenty years.
- Collector
- Patrick Murray
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Oram, Co. Monaghan
- Informant
- Michael Murray
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 70
- Address
- Lisdonny, Co. Monaghan
