School: An Bóthar Buí (B.), Áth Treasna (roll number 16396)
- Location:
- Boherboy, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Seán Ó Gealbháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0355, Page 101
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- 1) There lived in Kiskeam about one hundred years ago a man named Arthur OKeeffe. Arthur was famous for throwing the 1/2 cwt. It is said that he could throw it 8 perches.
2) There lived another famous man also in Kiskeam about the same time. His name was John Daly. He could walk fifty miles in thirty hours.
3) There lived in Tureenavouscane a man ... who could leap over a wall ten feet high.
- Collector
- Patrick O' Mahony
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Tooreenavuscaun, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Mrs Carroll
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 90
- Address
- Tooreenavuscaun, Co. Cork
