School: Gort na Léime (roll number 13012)
- Location:
- Gortaleam, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Pádhraic Ó Corcoráin
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- This man jumped his own height. His name is
John McLoughlin
Carrow na Manac
This man jumped down in a hole ten feet deep. His name was
John Cumins
Chequerhill House
Dunmore. - This man jumped his own height. His name is
John McLoughlin
Carrow na Manac
This man jumped down in a hole ten feet deep. His name was
John Cumins
Chequerhill House Dunmore.
My grandmother told me that a giant jumped from the top of Peak to the top of Chequerhill. The place between the two hills is called Gortaleam of 'the field of the jump."- Collector
- Katty Mc Hugh
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Knockaunbrack, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Bridget Mc Hugh
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 85
- Address
- Knockaunbrack, Co. Galway