School: Rear Cross, Newport (roll number 12124)
- Location:
- Rear Cross, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Pilib Ó Muireadhaigh
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- (continued from previous page)got up at six in the morning and started for Linerick to buy a cow. He arrived back about ten o'clock in the night. He got up the morning after and went off working and he was not a bit tired. He is supposed to be the best walker around here.
- There were great walkers living around this locality long ago. people used to walk to fairs fifty miles away. A man by the name of Martin Murnane, townland of Bealaclave, parish of Kilcommon, Co. Tipperary, walked from here ot Dublin. He left Bealaclave at about 10-30 on a Monday morning and arrived in Dublin at three o'clock Tuesday evening.
Another man by the name of Patsy Carey, townland of Foilduff, parish of Kilcommon, Co.Tipperary used often leave his own house in the morning and walk to Tipperary, about twenty three English miles from his own house and be back again in time for his tea.
Michael Meagher, townland of Foilduff, parish of Kilcommon, Co.Tipperary walked from his own house to a fair in Listowel, Co.Kerry. It took him a day and a half to do the journey.(continues on next page) - Collector
- Mary Carey
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Rear Cross, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- John Carey
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Rear Cross, Co. Tipperary
