School: Listowel (B.) (roll number 1797)
- Location:
- Listowel, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Brian Mac Mathúna
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- (continued from previous page)out bog-deal. When they were coming out of the bog the horse refused to pull the car so Shoen's brother came out of the car and unlocked the horse from the car and went between the shafts of the car of bog-deal and pulled car and Shoen. But it was the cause of his death for he died three months after and that left Shoen to be the strongest in Ireland.
- John Burns was going home from Ballybunion one day with a load of sand and he meet a steam-roller on the road and the horse shied at the steam roller and John got out and pushed the steam roller up the road.
- John Burns went to tarbert with a horse and car for a ton of meal and the horse got tried coming home and John had to tackle out the horse and tied him on to the back of the car and carried the ton of meal himself.(continues on next page)
