School: Ceann Tuirc (B.) (roll number 14052)
- Location:
- Kanturk, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Liam Ó Caoimh
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- (continued from previous page)And the cross was called after him.
He used to mow about two acres everyday.
Denis Flaherty was a great story teller. Any time you would meet him he would have some story about Kilmacow or about the surrounding district. - I knew a man of the name of O' Connor who walked twenty miles to a fair with cattle and home again. I heard of a man of the name of O' Brien who jumped a river twenty five feet. Another one challenged him but he did not succeed.
I heard of another of the name of Cornelius Murphy Banteer; who was the greatest walker of his time. I heard(continues on next page)- Collector
- Edward Thornton
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Mrs Nora Thornton
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Paal West, Co. Cork