School: Ballymackney (roll number 5501)
- Location:
- Ballymackney, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: P. Ó Conghaile
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0933, Page 187
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- I live in the town and I seldom hear fireside stories but this one I did hear
Thomas Doran was the son of a fashionable tailor in this town. He became wild in his youth and took to trampling. A Christie minstrel troupe nicknamed him "Schooner Doran" because he could travel as fast as a slowly ridden bicycle. His greatest walk was from Carrickmacross through Slane to Dublin in 10½ hours. He was known far and near as one who could keep on sight over a long distance of a trotting horse.
He died 12 years ago.
It was (fourty) Irish miles from Carrickmacross to Dublin.
- At Manan Castle there is a pool, and a man dreamed for three nights that there was a pot of gold hidden at the bottom. The fourth day he gathered some men about the parish to cut(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Corrigan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Essexford, Co. Louth
