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School: Killesk

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Coill Eisce, Co. Loch Garman
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0873, Page 028

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    Topics
    1. gníomhairí (~1)
      1. pearsana stairiúla (~5,068)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Nellie O Connor
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    Mr Owen O Connor
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    52
    Address
    An Chnocaigh, Co. Loch Garman

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    A man by the name of John Cahill won a leg of mutton by climbing a pole a height of twenty feet, and the leg of mutton was at the top of the pole, and who ever was able to clob to the top would win the prize. Another man named Martin Finn from Knockia who would who could leap twenty-four feet in a running jump. Patrick Colfer of
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