School: Teamhair, Áth Treasna
- Location:
- Taur, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Dd. Ó Súillleabháin
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- Nora O Sullivan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Glenlara, Co. Cork
- Mrs. Barry of Cummer, a woman of small stature, carried a firkin of butter from her home in Cummer to Cork market, a distance of 40 mls and returned home on the same night walking the entire journey. (The weight of butter and firkin cannot be ascertained.
Mrs. Hannah Latchford, (another woman of small stature,) of Taur, Newmarket, Co. Cork. often walked from her home in Taur to Kanturk a distance of 11 miles, and brought home on her back, a cwt. of blasting powder, for the use of her husband, who was a quarry man at Taur quarries.
It is also stated about her, that she walked to Kiskeam a distance of 7 English miles, as local shops were not as plentiful then as now, and brought home on her back half-a-sack (10 sts) of flour and six loaves bread.
