School: Gurteen (roll number 586)
- Location:
- Gurteen, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Richard B. Bracken
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- About seventy years ago there lived in the townland of Ballea a hero named Martin Lanheady. He died about thirteen years ago. He was a thatcher by trade. In his early life he carried a forty stone sack of wheat up a ladder in a mill. He used to mow an acre of hay with a scythe in a day. This was his daily task during the season of hay-cutting. He was a small man of a stout build. He was said to be as broad as he was long.
- Collector
- Patrick Guinan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Culleen, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Mr Terence Guinan
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 60
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Culleen, Co. Tipperary