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. - Transcription guide »You are not logged in, but you are welcome to contribute a transcription anonymously. In this case, your IP address will be stored in the interest of quality control.By clicking the save button you agree that your contribution will be available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License and that a link to dúchas.ie is sufficient as attribution.
- Collector
- Annie P. Clerkin
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballysumaghan, Co. Sligo