School: Coillte Craobhacha, Drumlish (roll number 15108)
- Location:
- Kiltycreevagh, Co. Longford
- Teacher: S. Ó Murchadha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0758, Page 333
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- (continued from previous page)to Dublin in two days and carried a scythe with him as he was going up to mow. James Harte of Cloncoose was another good walker. He walked up to Dublin to get twenty pounds chequed and when he was coming back, at Gaigue cross-roads, there were robbers waiting for him there, who knew he had the money, and they were going to take it off him, and one of them had a horse who followed him, and he ran before them to his own home in Cloncoose.
Hugh Creegan Cloncoose swam all Cloncoose Lough when he was eighty years of age
Pat Harte when he was fourteen years of age, mowed three roods of a meadow in one day.
Patrick Higgins of Cloncoose was a famous poet; he wrote for fifty years
- Collector
- Michael Creegan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Clooncose, Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- Hugh Creegan
- Relation
- Grandparent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- c. 89
- Address
- Clooncose, Co. Leitrim
