School: Gusserane

On this page

1. Local Heroes

   

   Share Share Post

   There lived a man in Clonmines about twenty five years ago. He worked in Bannow with a farmer. He used to go to his work six days a week.

   He worked with the same farmer for over ten years. He was never sick. He swam across Bannow-Bay to his work in the morning, and home again at night no matter how dark the night was.

   He swan it across Winter and Summer for ten long (?) years, a distance of two miles. His name was John Neville, he lived along-side the water. He worked for three shillings a week.

   He lived alone in a thatched house. He used to get up in the morning, and put his clothes and boots in an oil cover and tie his clothes on his shoulders.

   He put them in an oil cover to keep them dry. When the clothes were tied on his shoulders, he swam across the Bay, when he used to reach the other side, he used to put on clothes and walk to his work about half a mile form the water. He lived to be a very old man.

   A man name John William Stafford lived in Kayle at the first of the Eighteenth century. He was a great horseman. He used to be present a tall hunts. He lived where Henry King is living now. He leaped out in a fork of a tree, and he often leaped over a hedge six feet high on horseback. One day the meet was in Piltown, where many English riders were at the hunt.

   (continues on next page)

   

   Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.

   History Edit

   Topics

   1. agents (~1)
      1. historical persons (~5,068)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Vincent Egan

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Boley, Co. Wexford

   Informant

   David Egan

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Boley, Co. Wexford