School: Baile na Cille (roll number 1320)
- Location:
- Ballynakill, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Éinrí Ó Mainnín
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- (continued from previous page)again in a day, a journey of about sixty miles.Peter Dervan in the townland of Allygoola Parish of Ballinaskill, Barony of Leitrim was a great runner and he was supposed to be able to run a mile in five minutes. He won many prizes for foot racing.One day there were sports held in Ballinakill and competed in a race but he did not win. That evening when he went home he went to bed and he died shortly after. He is about thirty-two years dead now.
- Collector
- Eugene Monahan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Curragh, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Thomas Monahan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Allygola, Co. Galway