School: Sliabh na Cille (roll number 14513)
- Location:
- Slievenakilla, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Peadar Mac Fhlannchadha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0206, Page 247
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- John McNiff of Tullynaha, Ballinaglera, ran after a hare and caught him on the Tullynaha Bog. Mary McGourty from her grandmother Maria McGourty of Aughrim
- Old Pat McGovern of Slievenakilla, Ballinaglera, Co Leitrim was the champion walker of Co. Leitrim. All the old men and women used to walk to Bundoran. All the old men used to walk to Co. Dublin to the harvest every Summer. They used to travel at the rate of about five miles per hour.
- Pat Cornyn of Tullynaha, Ballinaglera and Frank Gilchrist of the same place walked to C. Dublin in a day and a half.
- John McNiff of Tullynaha was a good walker. He could walk six miles in one hour. Paddy McGovern of Aughrim, used to walk to Co. Dublin every summer to save the harvest. It used to take him a day and a half.
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- Mrs. Thomas Dolan and her husband walked to Bundoran in one day.
- Michael Rynn of Aughrim, Ballinaglera, could walk from Carrick-on-Shannon to his own house, a distance of about twenty miles, inside of two hours.(continues on next page)
