School: Dromlogach (roll number 10908)
- Location:
- Dromlegagh, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Seán Ó Laochdha
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- (continued from previous page)About fifty years six years ago a man lived in the townland of Coolanelig by the name of Shoan Byrnes. He was a very strong man. One day he and his comrades came to the Knockmaol bog for turf with horses and rails. It was a very wet place and when they were coming home one of the horses went bogging. Shoan took the horse from under the car. He then put the back-band across his shoulders and two others went behind pulling it back. However Shoan pulled out the car in spite of them.
- In or about the year nineteen hundred and three a great storm(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Siobhán Nic Ghearailt
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Meennahorna, Co. Kerry