School: Strang's Mills, Kilmacow
- Location:
- Strangsmill, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Richard Rellis
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- Informant
- Robin Knox
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 72
- Address
- Kilmacow, Co. Kilkenny
- (See page 293)
The man referred to before as running with the coach from Waterford to Kilkenny was locally known as Holly, or Hollyhawk or Holly the bellman.
He used to run before the Coach. The people who were travelling often threw pence on the road in order to delay him but still he'd beat the coach to Kilkenny. The person who told this saw him in Tramore about 50 years ago with placard on his breast "The great runner is now blind" was written on it.
