School: Ballinacliffy
- Location:
- Ballynacliffy, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: A. Ní Dhubhthaigh
![The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0747, Page 123](https://doras.gaois.ie/cbes/CBES_0747%2FCBES_0747_123.jpg?width=1600&quality=85)
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0747, Page 123
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Ballinacliffy
- XML Page 123
- XML “Local Heroes - Great Runners, Jumpers and Walkers”
- XML “Local Heroes”
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
- (continued from previous page)[-]
- In this district long ago Patrick O'Hara, Blackislands County Longford was the best boats-man on Lough Ree. He was able to row a racer three miles in six minutes. My grand-father Willie Ganley, Inchturk Island, Glasson, was drowned and a man named Hanley from the County Longford swam to shore and was saved. Peter Quigley was able to swim a hundred yards in three minutes and was able to catch a duck by swimming after her
- Collector
- Pat Nolan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 13
- Informant
- Michael Conaughton
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 51
- Address
- Muckanagh, Co. Westmeath