School: Cúl Mín, Inis
- Location:
- Coolmeen, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Dd. Ó Murchadha
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- (continued from previous page)hour. He walked the twelve miles in and hour and won the bet.
- There was a great dancer in Kildysart long ago. One night he danced around a blade of a scythe bare-foot and did not cut himself.
- There lived in Crossderry a man named Patrick O Neill. This man was noted for his strength. Once he brought two big sacks to build a stone wall. Each weighed about four or five hundred weight.
- Collector
- Patrick Greene
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Moy, Co. Clare
- Informant
- John Greene
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Moy, Co. Clare
- There was a rich man there in the time of the famine and he made a bet of a sack of flour with a poor man that he would not carry it eight miles. The man carried it and got for nothing.
