School: Easgéiphtine (C.) (roll number 2040)

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   each end. This was a great feat for any man to lift over two ___ weight with one hand and to raise it over his head.

   

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   My grandmother ( Mrs Ellen Murphy, _____, Croagh, Co. Limerick) who is nearly ninty years old, told me that she a man named Madigan, when being chased, to jump a river thirty five feet wide.

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   Topics

   1. agents (~1)
      1. historical persons (~5,068)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Mina Murphy

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Askeaton, Co. Limerick

   Informant

   Mrs Ellen Murphy

   Relation

   Grandparent

   Gender

   Female

   Age

   c. 90

   Address

   Cloonoul, Co. Limerick

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   There was a woman named Jennie O'Neill living in Askeaton formerly. She always walked to Limerick (a distance of over twenty miles from her house) and back, to celebrate the feast of St. Francis.
   (Written by Mina Murphy)

   

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   A man named O'Connell lived in Borrigone. He was a great runner and also a great swimmer. Michael Creagh, a native of Creeves Cross, was a great walker. One Sunday, he and James Mulcair were coming home from Mass at Askeaton and Mulcair asked Creagh if he were going to Galway to the fair which was being held there the following Wednesday. He said he was. Muclair said he was going in a motor but Creagh said he was going to walk. They left about the same time but Creagh was in Galway before Mulcair and his motor-car.
   (Written by Brigid O'Donnell.)
   Told by Wm O'Donnell aged 41 years

   

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