School: Owning Convent (roll number 16430)
- Location:
- Owning, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Sr. M. Bernadette
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- In this district years ago we had men who in various forms of sport won considerable renown. To assertain to-day in whatsoever their fromess[?] asserted itself and the measure of their strength and speed is not an easy task. Their feats are exaggerated and it has long been acknowledged and it has long been acknowledged that such men alway gain by the "historical estimate". If they were pygmies to their contemporaries they are giants to us. And vice versa.
In the line of strength John Purcell, Glencommon, Partick Casey Curraghmore, Micheal Scully, Ballinacroney(continues on next page)- Collector
- Elsie Suttie
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Oldcourt, Co. Kilkenny
- Informant
- Mr J. Suttie
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 57
- Address
- Oldcourt, Co. Kilkenny