School: Mullinavat Convent
- Location:
- Mullinavat, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Sr M. Lorcán
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0851, Page 061
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- In the year 1890 on Saint Stephen's Day a sports meeting was held in the village of Lukeswell. It was comprised of donkey racing, bag racing, jumping and walking, and finished up at night with a heavy fall of snow, holding up all spectators in the houses of the villages until the next day. The winner of the first race was a donkey locally called Darcy's Molly Connor's. About her a song was comosed which is sung at the present day and portion of it runs thus.-Darcy's Molly Connor's did her duty well.
She won the cup of honour at Knockmoylan near Lukeswell.The winner of the bag race was a man maned Michael Comerford, locally known as Lindsay Comerford son of a school teacher from Mullinavat. About him a song was also composed and runs(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Nellie Reade
- Gender
- Female
