School: Borrisoleigh, Glenkeen (roll number 590)
- Location:
- Borrisoleigh, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Tomás de Búrca
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0544, Page 304
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- (continued from previous page)and he ran five miles in one day in one hour And it is also said that a man named Bill Bourke of Seskin in the parish of Upperchurch was a great runner he ran one mile in one quarter of an hour. It was also said that a man named William Bourke of Rusheen in the parish of Borrisoleigh was a great swimmer and he got a great prize. It was said a man named Ned Bourke of Killamoyne in the parish of Borrisoleigh was a great mower. He mowed seven acres in three days. It was said that a man named Batt Dignan of Dromtarsna in the parish of Borrisoleigh that he was a great walker. It was said that a man named Patsy Quinn of Coumbeg in the parish of Upperchurch was a great mower. Thomas Bourke N. J. Castle Quarter Borrisoleigh was a great runner. Patrick Gilmartin of Greenane in the parish of Borrisoleigh that he was a great walker he used to walk from Greenane to Nenagh and it is fourteen miles, and that would be twenty eight miles in the day. At times there was a great man dancing named Michael Quinlan Glenanogue in the parish of Borrisoleigh he was a great dancer. He danced single hornpipe and all kinds of Irish dances. He got great prizes(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Brigid Ryan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Gorteennabarna, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Mrs Ed Ryan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Gorteennabarna, Co. Tipperary
