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Dernakesh, Co. Cavan
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Bean Mhic Uaid
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1017, Page 174

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    in a fight with ten drunken men. She had a brother in the fight and seeing that she could do nothing for him, she took off her stocking and put a fairly heavy stone in it, with which she beat the ten men.
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    In this locality there is a man named John Bannon or as he was called "John the Jobber" who lives in the townland of Corragarry, Cootehill, Co. Cavan. He is known to have been a great walker and he has done many a long journey in his day.
    One fine harvest morning in the end of the nineteenth century John and two other men walked
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    Topics
    1. agents (~1)
      1. historical persons (~5,068)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Sue Reilly
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Latully, Co. Cavan
    Informant
    Pat Boyle