School: Tolerton, Ballylickmoyler (roll number 11321)
- Location:
- Towlerton, Co. Laois
- Teacher: L. Ó Broin
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- When Athlone station was first built a man named Micheal Neill of Coone sang there. The name of the song he sang was the "Isle of the Green" He was also a good runner and a good jumper. Many people tried to run him but they could not.
One man named Micheal Browne tried to run him by running around a two - acre - field three times. But he was around it three times before Browne was round it twice.
Once there lived a man named Lawlor in Bilbo. One day he was mowing hay in one of his fields with a scythe. After he had mowed a small of the field he got tired.(continues on next page)- Collector
- Gwen Atkinson
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Monavea, Co. Laois
- Informant
- John Atkinson
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Monavea, Co. Laois