School: Fermoyle (B.), Lanesboro (roll number 13320)
- Location:
- Formoyle (Newcomen), Co. Longford
- Teacher: Ss. Mac Eoghain
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- (continued from previous page)was about twenty five years of age he had some business down in Galway. One morning he set out on the journey walking. It was on a Monday morning and the following Tuesday morning he arrived home at five o'clock. This journey reached up to one hundred and fifty miles in one day.
When he arrived home he did not go to bed but instead got a reaping hook and started to reap the time being in the harvest. When it was time for the people to be up he had about one rood of wheat reaped. This man is now dead.
- Once upon a time there was a woman living near a fort. This night she was churning and the churn-dash. Just then a man came into the house and the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Patrick Ward
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cullentragh, Co. Longford
- Informant
- Patrick Ward
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cullentragh, Co. Longford
