School: Baile an Churraigh
- Location:
- Ballincurry, Co. Galway
- Teacher: A. L. Ó Maoileannaigh
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- Local Heroes1. Peter Conor of Cill Cloch was a set butt of a man weighing 16 st and is supposed to have carried a weight of 7 cwts on his back.2. There was once a man and he had power of saving anyone from being hanged. He had a daughter and she was very homely looking. This day he saw the police taking a man to be hanged and he sent the daughter out to stop him and he would save him if he would marry her. He looked at the girl and he told the driver to drive on. It cant be any worse.3. John Dunne of Cill Cloch was going Ballygar and Ned Grady was stopping him from crossing his(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Marion Dowd
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballincurry, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Padraic Ó Dhubhdha
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballincurry, Co. Galway