School: Sooey (roll number 6249)
- Location:
- Sooey, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Seán Ó Hóráin
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- (continued from previous page)centuries gained very high rank for themselves and became true statesmen and Lawyers and steadfast missionaries. There teachers has such a strong love for their pupils, wholeheartily, how to be true Irishmen without any payment or anything in return.
- Local Heroes 24-11-'37
In olden times a man named John Sheridan of Boleymount, Bloomfield, had a little shop in a field. There was a road leading to the house. He got a man to bring a load of flour out of Sligo to him, and as there was no way of getting in a cart, he had to carry it on his back. He got a rope, and put seven extra stone bags of flour in it and carried it over half a mile, through bogs, and fields into his home. He was famed for his strength. - Old Schools 20:1:28(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Annie P. Clerkin
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballysumaghan, Co. Sligo