School: Drumcoghill
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- Drumcoghill Lower, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Bean Uí Iomaire
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- [?] "a running jump" hop, skip & leap. [?]The best jumper in this district was Wm. Armstrong, The "Forth", Drumkeeran.
[?] 7 1/2 yds [?]
Every day at dinner hour the bog [?] -men [?] collected at one place and an hour was spent at such contests.Nowadays men [?] & cattle [?] ride at their ease to the Fairs. 25 or 30 years ago both man and beast underwent great hardship. I know men who walked to the Fairs in Bawnboy or Belturbet - which meant 15 or sixteen miles each way. - I also saw a man walk as far as Clones to a Fair - but not back on the same day. Time 5 hours. Distance:- about 22 Eng. miles. (no title)
“The scarcest thing in the World...”
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- Mrs A. Montgomery
- Gender
- Female
- Occupation
- Teacher
- Address
- Corr, Co. Cavan