School: An Gleann (roll number 14113)
- Location:
- An Gleann, Co. Shligigh
- Teacher: Proinnsias Ó Ciaráin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0179, Page 250
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“Long ago there were many strong men in my district.”
(continued from previous page)butter on their back and the very minute they received the money went home without a dinner. The next day they were at mass as gay as a thrush. John Tige was one of the best of them. He walked to Sligo with a firkin of butter and back again which was twenty-eight miles and went the same journey the next day with a sack of corn.
He dug twenty creels of potatoes in one day and picked them himself. He put a two hundred weight over his head twelve times without resting, and carried it two miles. He cut over a hundred stook of oats one day and tied it himself. Dudly O' Gara ran nine mile in forty-five minutes and jumped seven feet high. He cut six cocks of hay in one day and often walked six miles before nine o clock after his day's work and started at ten o clock in the morning to work.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Maureen Conlon
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Dún gCaolach, Co. Shligigh
- Informant
- John Conlon
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 70
- Address
- Dún gCaolach, Co. Shligigh