School: Broadford, Ráthluirc
- Location:
- Broadford, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Siobhán Nic Phiarais
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0491, Page 024
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
Download
Open data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Broadford, Ráthluirc
- XML Page 024
- XML (no title)
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
(no title) (continued)
“My grandfather was a famous athlete, who won several prizes.”
(continued from previous page)He won a suit of clothes at sports in Morris Cremin's field. He went to Strand once and he won a horse's saddle and whip for high jumps. Those he gave to his favourite friend. This man used to drive him around from place to place. He won a gold watch and chain in Knocklong for running. He went to Cork and won a silver set. He won a clock in Ballygran for long jump. He won a clock in England once for running. Before he left Ireland he ate a good feed of potatoes, bacon and cabbage. When he came home he ran from Broadford to Charleville barefooted to meet the train and he was late, then he ran from Broadford to Killmalock and won a race afterwards. He died at the age of 34 in the year 1909.
- Collector
- Jeremiah Forde
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Banemore, Co. Limerick