School: Oulart (roll number 15419)
- Location:
- Oulart, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Séamus Ó hAilleacháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0886, Page 318
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- Peter Fortune of Raheenaskea, Oulart, Gorey was a famous jumper in year's gone by. He could long jump + stand jump he could with a pole + he could jump without a pole. He could jump twelve feet in height with a pole + he could jump six feet in height without a pole. He could jump a height of three feet standing. He won a great lot of prizes and medals for jumpibg. He was never challenged.
Mr Mourdant of Camolin Co Wexford was a great dancer. He was an all Ireland prize winner. He taught almost all the famous dancers of the present day. He had a class in Oulart, in the year of 1914. He held the class in the boys old school.
- Collector
- Mary Bolger
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Raheennaskeagh Lower, Co. Wexford
