School: Drakestown, Ardee (roll number 1554)
- Location:
- Drakestown, Co. Louth
- Teacher: Michael Ó Flynn
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0668, Page 321
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- One day Luke Duffy from Ardee was working in Kilpatrick. He tied four 1/2 cwt. weights together with a rope and put a handkerchief in on them and lifted them from the ground with his teeth. Duffy died about 30 years ago.One day Paddy Lynch of Stoneylane, Ardee was attending a threshing in Harlestone. Mr. Steen told him if he carried a barrel of wheat from Harlestone to Stoneylane he would give the wheat to him. So he carried it without a stop, a distance of over two miles. Lynch died about 30 years ago.
- Nick Dunne had the lend of a turnip barrow and double sower. Joe Smyth wanted the lend of it also. Smyth went to the field in which Dunne was preparing the ground to sow turnips and the barrow was on the headland. When Smyth got Dunne half way up the field he yoked his horse to the barrow and was going away when Dunne saw him. Dunne ran across the field and caught hold of the barrow and pulled and he beat the horse in the pull so Smyth had to go home without the barrow.
- Informant
- Brian Mathews
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Anaglog, Co. Louth
