School: Trinity (roll number 2311)
- Location:
- Tincurra, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Mrs Dereveux
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- It is told of a John Kehoe of Moortown that he could carry a twenty stone bag of wheat under each arm and walk on straw while doing so.
- Informant
- Peter Kelly
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 75
- Address
- Trinity Cross Roads, Co. Wexford
- In olden times people often walked from this locality to fairs in Ross and Enniscorthy a distance of Sixteen Irish miles and returned home walking on the same day.
- Stories are told of a great jumper in the locality years ago named Patrick Codd.
He was supposed to have one deformed foot but no one could compete with him in the jump. - Mowers in the long ago could mow an acre of wheat in the day.
A story is told of a man who started to mow an acre of wheat one morning and finished it in time to go to town in the early afternoon. - Thomas Stafford, Coolstuff was a noted dancer. He used a famous jig step called "Cover the Buckle"
