School: Teamhair, Áth Treasna
- Location:
- Taur, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Dd. Ó Súillleabháin
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- Daniel Lane of Glounakeele Rockchapel was a noted
high jumper. He often competed a local sports and
was able to jump over a bar six feet high.
It is also told of him that he was able jump over
a six barred gate.
On one occasion he jumped over a pier of a gate 5' 9ins
high, in Glounamuckla, this event was witnessed by
several people, among whom were Michael Murphy of
Glounamuckla, Newmarket Co. Cork
- Peter McArthy of Lisdangan, Newmarket. Co. Cork.
is a noted fresh water swimmer and diver, on one
occasion about eighteen years ago, a number of boys
were swimming in a deep pool beside his house, and
one boy named Robert Lane of Taur, after diving into
the pool sank to the bottom and was drown.
His comrades ran for McArthy, who dived several times
before he could recover the body, but eventually he
brought it to the surface, but life was extinct.
- Collector
- Thomas Keane
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Commons South, Co. Cork
- Informant
- John Keane
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Commons South, Co. Cork
