School: Clomanto
- Location:
- An Chloch Mhantach Uachtarach, Co. Chill Chainnigh
- Teacher: Liam Mac Óda
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0867, Page 345
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- "Willie Curran from Johnstown carried a trough for watering horses across the yard. It was a cement trough and weighed thirty-two stone"
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“Tom Proctor (he died about ten years ago aged 70) carried a sheep from the little paddock to their own yard...”
"Tom Proctor (he died about ten years ago aged 70) carried a sheep from the little paddock to their own yard (about a distance of about one hundred yards) in his mouth for a bet.""Dick Cahill of Bally Larkin carried twenty stone of wheat from Bally Larkin to the top story of the mill."
(The distance here would be about a mile - the mill now in Ruins - was five storey high)"John Longman was at the Fair of Tullaroan. He bought a sheep and when he came to Brittas Cross, he couldn't get the sheep to go the road he wanted so he caught the sheep by the four legs(continues on next page) - Collector
- Diarmuid Campion
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