School: Díseart, Droichead Átha (roll number 1434)
- Location:
- Dysart, Co. Louth
- Teacher: M. Ní Ailpín
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- (continued from previous page)left there, and, filled the whole room. Paddy Watters is still living in Canada.
- I head from my father that his uncle would walk from his own house to Dunleer in a quarter of an hour. It was there Irish miles from his house to Dunleer.
He would also walk to Drogheda in two hours the distance of eight miles. - Informant
- John Murphy
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- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Thornogs, Co. Louth
- I know a man named James Devine who used to work in Dundalk when they were building the new railway. He used walk to it every morning, and walk home every evening, a distance of fifteen miles each way.
My mother used to walk to Drogheda every Saturday, a distance of ten miles. She would leave(continues on next page)
