School: Knocktemple (B.)
- Location:
- Knockatemple, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: W. Tuite
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0998, Page 242
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- (continued from previous page)at Gillie’s wood which was about two mile away and threw the Revenue Officer some place in the wood, and as soon as he did,Pete made off into the bushes,but the Revenue Officer didn’t ask to catch him again, By the time the Officer had made his way back to where he had started all signs of the “Poteen” making had disappeared.
Pete was able to catch a full grown man by the waist and throw him up in the air and catch him coming down,the same as you would do with a doll,and he was able to make a jump twenty feet long and he was also able to lift a stone with his one hand which an ordinary man would not move with his two.
On another occasion the Revenue Officer came suddenly to Pete’s house with other Officers and two horse soldiers,The officers went down the road and left the soldiers to guard the house,when they got the Officers gone they went to Pete and asked him had(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Patrick Gilsenan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Knockatemple, Co. Cavan
