School: Druminardly
- Location:
- Drumman Beg, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Criostóir Ó Cuanáin
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- LOCAL HEROES.
Jumpers: Frank Leannon jumped an asses cart heaped with turf and stand behind it and jump across the shafts. Dan Tighe jumped Paddy Murphy's River which was twenty-four feet wide. Michael Reilly jumped a race horse. Denis Malany jumped a bog-hole twenty feet wide. Tom Kelly jumped a horse sixteen hands high, he also jumped a stick put on two men's hands holding it above their heads. Owen Mahon jumped a wall six feet high at Carnadoe Creamery. Ned Washington jumped a River five feet broad and a ditch five ft high. Tom Kearns was a great jumper. James Moffatt was a good jumper also.
Dancers:
Tom Kearns was a great dancer. Daniel Hoare, Maggie Cox also her brother Thomas. James Mc Donald. Mary Keeffe, Annie Mc Glynn, Pat O Shea. James Healy. George Mc Donnell was a good dancer. Paddy Foley, Tom Washington. Thomas Feeney. John(continues on next page)
