School: Abbeytown Convent N.S. (roll number 15043)

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   “Every year there was an Annual Sports held in the Castle Garden.”

   

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   At five o'clock in the evening there was not a blade of grass standing in the field. He went up to the house and got ready for the road to Boyle. He walked to Boyle which is five good Irish miles from his house. He had three good pints and walked home again. When he went home, he ate a good feed of potatoes and buttermilk and then went to bed and he said he slept the soundest sleep he ever slept in his life. Mr Connelly is eighty four years of age and, still is a great mower, he is also a great Irish speaker, and, he learned all his Irish from his grandmother.

   Guard P. Perry and Tom Gaughran are noted handball players. they learned all their handball in the Boyle handball alley. Guard Perry won the champion, ship of Ireland for handball. Jack Conner of Tarmon and ''Tully'' Regan of St. Patricks St., are noted swimmers. There is no swimming pool, but they swim in the Boyle river at Assylinn, which is nearly as deep as a swimming pool.

   

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   1. agents (~1)
      1. historical persons (~5,068)

   Language

   English

   Informant

   Mr James Turbitt

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Termon, Co. Roscommon