School: Dromcollchoille (B.)
- Location:
- Dromcolliher, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Mathghamhna
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- There was a man whose name was James Burke. He was a baker at Fitzgeralds. He was taken to Rome to compete. There were sports in Newcastle and the high-jum was on. A man by the name of Leahy was winning, and Burke said, " I will jump that". He jumped it, and knocked it with his hand. He told the man to raise the stick a couple of more inches, and he jumber six feet, and four inches. Then he went in the hurdles, and was winning, and a the last hurdle he lay down and left Leahy win it.
- Collector
- Timothy Feaheny
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Woodfield, Co. Limerick
- Informant
- William O' Sullivan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- c. 60
- Address
- Dromcolliher, Co. Limerick
