School: Achadh Bolg (roll number 3588)
- Location:
- Aghabullogue, Co. Cork
- Teacher: (name not given)
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0343, Page 439
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- (continued from previous page)ran to Cork after a side car, a distance of about fifteen miles. Jeremiah O'Sullivan another of the Aghabullogue hurlers was also a famous runner. He won a race of twenty miles among thirty competitors.
There were several great walkers who used walk to Cork with a load of hay in about four hours.
There was a great jumper named David Buckley (son of David Buckley the weight thrower) who used jump six feet one and a half ins.
James Buckley of Kilcolman was another long distance runner. He won races locally, also in Wales & in America.
- Collector
- Thomas Healy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Aghabullogue, Co. Cork
