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School: Baile Uaitéir (Walterstown) (roll number 12281)

Location:
Walterstown, Co. Cork
Teacher:
Seán Ó Raghaill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0386, Page 142

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    My father James Wilson of Walterstown told me about some Local Heroes:- Jack Kidney of Walterstown was remarkable for feat of endurance as he used to carry one hundred weight from the seashore at Morlogue, to the boundary of Ballybrassil a distance of about a mile and a half.
    Great Walkers:-
    Edmond and Thomas Walsh of Morlogue used to visit Cork in the year 1855 walking to Carrigloe, and across by boat to Passage, through Carrigline on to Cork, and home by road through Glanmire and Queenstown Junction, to Belvelly, often for a spade or sometimes a reaping hook a distance of nearly thirty miles. A man by the name of Daniel O'Sullivan who lived in this locality, walked to Kinsale in the year 1867, a distance of about forty miles in a day.
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. agents (~1)
      1. historical persons (~5,068)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Margaret Wilson
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    James Wilson
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    55
    Occupation
    Care-taker
    Address
    Walterstown, Co. Cork