School: Oylegate (roll number 5918)
- Location:
- Maolán na nGabhar, Co. Loch Garman
- Teacher: Séamus Ó Braoin
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0886, Page 254
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Oylegate
- XML Page 254
- XML “A Local Hero”
- XML “A Local Hero”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- (continued from previous page)went down under the water and he was not seen for a long time.
Everyone thought he was drowned until he rose under Killurin Bridge, 3 miles away.
- Once upon a time there lived a man in Crory whose name was John Reck. He walked to Dublin in a day and another man would want to be running to keep up with him. He used to win a good deal of walking races. This happened about y 40 years,, ago. He used to ,, go by the people of the parish as "Reck the Walker", There was not a man that time that could beat him walking.
Often times men used to challenge him but failed to beat him. Once he challenged a man to walk to Dublin and who ever would do it in the shortest time would be the best. So they started off from a place called Castle Sow. They started off about 8 o'Clock in the morning and John Reck was in Dublin by 6 o clock that(continues on next page) - Collector
- Sean O' Leary
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- An Ráithín Bán, Co. Loch Garman
- Informant
- Mr Bernard O' Leary
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- An Ráithín Bán, Co. Loch Garman
