School: Mullagh (B)
- Location:
- Mullagh, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: James Drury
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1003, Page 013
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- (continued from previous page)farming operations. On one occasion when Dean Swift was visiting in Rantavan Dr. Sheridan happened to send some of his huge Sheridan labourers to help at Mr. Brookes' haymaking, and the Dean was so amused at the contrast, and at seeing the giant Sheridans lift up the dwarf Bradleys in their hands and place them like dolls on the haycocks that he joked and laughed with Mrs Brookes at what he had seen that day in the hayfield."It is firmly believed in the locality that it was from this incident Swift got his idea of Lilliput etc.
Related by Mr. John Lynch, Rantavan, Mullagh, Age 55.
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“Stories of "Jack" - the Dean's famous servant are still related.”
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- J. Drury
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 62
- Occupation
- Múinteoir
- Informant
- Andy Mc Groney
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Tailor
