School: Coillte Craobhacha, Drumlish (roll number 15108)
- Location:
- Kiltycreevagh, Co. Longford
- Teacher: S. Ó Murchadha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0758, Page 339
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- (continued from previous page)Andrew Dooris mowed three quarters of an acre (Irish) in a day. He mowed it for a bet. It is about forty years ago since he mowed it.
Poet Higgins of Clooncoose Co Leitrim was the best poet to be known of. He is dead about thirty years.
- There was once a man named John Corrigan who lived in the town-land of Lettergullion beside Ballinamuck who in the year 1850 after the Famine year was obliged to go in the Summer of the year to the Co Dublin to earn as much money as would pay the rent. While working in Dublin his corn at home fell ripe, and his wife found it(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Mc Loughlin
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Kiltycreevagh, Co. Longford
- Informant
- Alice Mc Loughlin
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 42
- Address
- Kiltycreevagh, Co. Longford
