School: Baile Bhriain
- Location:
- Ballybryan, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: P. Ó Buachalla
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0802, Page 022
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- (continued from previous page)The two men started work at seven in the morning and until midday Grey held his own with the champion. They resumed work at one o'clock and for two hours no one could tell which was the better slanesman. Towards evening Grey seemed to get exhausted and his movements became slower; While Lawless seemed to work with renewed energy, and his brow men were hard put to it to wheel sod away. At five in the evening Grey declared he was "cast" and lay in an exhausted condition on the bank.
- Collector
- Sean Glennon
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Greenhills, Co. Offaly
- Informant
- James Coyne
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballyheashill, Co. Offaly
