School: An Cam (Camp), Tra Lí
- Location:
- Camp, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Seán Ó Murchadha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0432, Page 118
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- (continued from previous page)Stephen struck the black and killed him on the spot.
A GOOD WRESTLERJack Coffee lived in Baile an Chnocáin in a field called Garraidhe Chathail. He was supposed to be a great wrestler. When the canal from Blennerville to the Basin at Tralee was being made, (* Tá deich míle galldha ó Gharruidhe Chathail go Tráighlí) Jack Coffee and other men were walking to their work for sixpence a day. They were working one day, when a brother of Doctor Crump's came and challenged any man of two hundred men to wrestle for a pound. The men told Jack to take him up and Jack said where would himself get a pound. The men made a collection and gave him the pound. He went at Crump, and knocked him three times. He took what men were at the work into a public house and spent the two pounds on them.
- Collector
- Eoghan Ó Domhnaill
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Knockglass More, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- Séamus A. O Domhnaill
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 62
- Occupation
- Feirmeoir
- Address
- Knockglass More, Co. Kerry
