School: Lorg an Iarla (roll number 13590)
- Location:
- Lorga an Iarla, Co. Mhuineacháin
- Teacher: E. Ní Choilldubh
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- Long ago the people used to walk long distances, which the people today wouldn't walk and couldn't walk.
Long ago as I have heard there was a man walked from Newtownhamilton to Belfast and back again, and that be about seventy miles, and that was a very long distance. He started very early in the morning and he arrived at Belfast that night at ten o'clock and then he came home next morning.
- Once upon a time there lived a man named John Carr. He was very strong it is said that one day a man named Paddy Wellsh who lived in Oram, met this man one day and he had a plough on one shoulder and a half a tree on the other shoulder.
It is said that he had a big black mare and one day he went into the stable and said "old girl you carried me(continues on next page) - Informant
- Mrs Traynor
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Droim Mhic Roib, Co. Mhuineacháin
