School: Riverstown 2
- Location:
- Riverstown, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Áine Ní Pheadair
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0180, Page 353
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Riverstown 2
- XML Page 353
- XML “Local Heroes”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- (continued from previous page)prizes he got are a suit of clothes, a bag of flour and several money prizes. One day he was working in Coopershill until twelve o'clock, got a half day from there, came home, had something to eat and started across the country, five miles to Ballincarrow, Co Sligo. Just when he got there his race was called and he started with the rest of them and won. This is where he got the suit of clothes.
The late Mr. Thomas Torsney, Riverstown was a celebrated bicycle rider and everywhere he went to athletic sports he got prizes. Some of his prizes were; clocks, Silver Cup, watches and all sorts of valuable prizes. He went to Glasgow and was riding there when another cyclist of the same race either fell or threw himself off is in his way and(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Dorothy Robertson
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Turnalaydan, Co. Sligo
