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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0802, Page 086

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    Mowers
    In the same district about fifty years ago lived two men named Richard Weir and James Mc Evoy who are said to be the greatest mowers of their time. They each could mow one acre of corn on half an acre of old meadow hay in a day this was considered a record, because the average man could only do half that work in the same time.
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    Topics
    1. agents (~1)
      1. historical persons (~5,068)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Máigréad Ní Shléibhín
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    Thomas Mc Loughlin
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Jamestown or Ballyteigeduff, Co. Laois