School: Ballymartle (roll number 7361)
- Location:
- Ballymartle, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Patrick Kelleher
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0322, Page 065
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- (continued from previous page)and horsemen. One of them Henry, was a famous Jocky from Limerick named Delmege and the two of them met at some hunt and anyone of them did not know each other and when Knowles saw him jumping so strong over a fence that himself had to jump it, and they were jumping high gates and high fences all day and in the end Knowles jumped a rike of turf in the middle of a turf bog and the other jockey followed him and next they jumped a tatched house on the side of a hill and Knowles saw a forked tree at a distant and he made his horse go towards it. He jumped it and Delmege did not and he told Knowles that he was either the devil or Henry Knowles and(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Rita Donoghue
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Riverstick, Co. Cork
