School: Páirc na Rian (C.), Rampark, Jenkinstown (roll number 4882)
- Location:
- Rampark, Co. Louth
- Teacher: M. Ní Fhlannagáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0660, Page 226
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- (continued from previous page)they would ____ home whatever goods they needed. Sometimes they walked across the bay to Dundalk when the tide was outThere was a man who lived in Rampark named Johnny Carroll, and one day he was going to Dundalk with a half a ton of potatoes in a cart drawn by a pony. When he reached the Ballymascanlon Bridge the pony got tired and he would go no further. The man loosed the pony out of the cart got between the shafts and pulled the cart into Dundalk.
- Once there was a competition held in Carlingford. There was a plank three prerches long from a vessel on to the pier. Any man that could walk across this plank with six hundred on his back would get ten pounds as a prize. Several men tried to perform this feat but all were unsuccessful except my great grandfather Owen Eaton who walked the(continues on next page)
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