School: Rear Cross, Newport (roll number 12124)
- Location:
- Rear Cross, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Pilib Ó Muireadhaigh
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- (continued from previous page)John Russell, townland of Rear Cross, parish of Kilcommon, Co Tipperary, ran from here to Limerick one time in three hours. That same man often walked from here to Kilkee, Co. Clare.
- Pat Hayes , townland of Bealaclave, parish of Kilcommon, Co Tipperary, was a very good walker here long ago. He left his own house about half past tenor eleven o'clock one night and walked from that to Abbeyfeale, Co.Kerry. He walked it all one night and he reached there the morning after early. There was a fair in Abbeyfeale and Pat bought two cows and drove them back to Bealaclave on the same day. It is about sixty miles from here ot Abbeyfeale. A day before Pat left Bealaclave, two men left to go to Abbeyfeale. They went by rail and Pat, who walked there, reached there before them.
James Ryan, townland of Lackamore, parish of Newport, Co.Tipperary lived in Kerry and one morning he left Kerry at about six o'clock and walked it all the way until he landed in Newport.- Collector
- Maggie Deere
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Rear Cross, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- John Carey
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Rear Cross, Co. Tipperary