School: Duleek (C.) (roll number 3114)
- Location:
- Duleek, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Dhonnchadha
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He worked with a farmer in Keenogue. He told the farmer that there was a sports to be held in a field on the following Sunday. He told him he was going to them and could run the race and compete in a long jump. The farmer said he would bet ten shillings that the boy would not win. If he did he would give him the ten shillings. When the day pf the sports arrived Jim Walsh went to eight o'clock mass Duleek and prayed that he might win. He went home, milked the cows, cleaned the(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Nicholas Connell
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Longford, Co. Meath
