School: Clongeen (roll number 4652)

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1. Local Heroes

   

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   Years ago a family named Bennetts had a small farm and a house in Woodtown near the present wood of Horetown. The ruins of their house are still to be seen. This man had two sons but they left him and went to seek work in another farm. The man was left alone and had to work hard to earn a living for himself. He got poorer ever day until he had nothing left only a horse and an ass. One day he was rolling. The horse fell dead it was a large field, the corn was sown and he finished rolling an acre and a half by pulling the roller himself. He always lifted the roller clear off the ground and put it into a car.

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   Topics

   1. activities
      1. social activities (~7)
         1. entertainments and recreational activities (~5,933)
   2. agents (~1)
      1. historical persons (~5,068)

   Language

   English

   Location

   Woodtown, Co. Wexford

   Collector

   Thomas White

   Gender

   Male

   Informant

   Miss Whelan

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Horetown, Co. Wexford

2. Local Heroes

   

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   There was a field near Alyward's Cross where sports were held each year. People used to walk from all parts of the Co. and even from other counties to them. There was a man named Carroll from Co. Carlow who won several years in succession at slinging a bag

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