School: Cluain Meacan (roll number 11451)
- Location:
- Cloonmackon, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Liam Ó Catháin
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- There was a famous character in North Kerry about fifty years ago. The name he was commonly by was Paddy the Gasc. He was a horse trainer and it was said he could do anything with a horse. It not matter whether he was drunk or sober.
There is a place on the coast near Ballybunion called the Nine Daughters' Hole. To look down into this would frighten you as the sea dashes in with terrible violence. There is a path around it about three feet wide. A brave active man would be afraid to walk around this path but Paddy the Gasc rode a young half trained horse around it.- Collector
- Cahal Kennelly
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Dromin, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- Jenny Histon
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Cloonmackon, Co. Kerry
- There was a man named John Guerin of Ballahadigue. He used to set from ninety to a hundred spades of baun potatoes in a day, and would mow from three quarters to an acre and sometimes more he was working at(continues on next page)