School: Lios na mBroc (roll number 11453)
- Location:
- Lios na mBroc, Co. Thiobraid Árann
- Teacher: Séamus Ó Cinnéide
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0562, Page 164
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Another famous feat of his was to balance himself on his knees on the top bar of a gate and jump over it.
When nearly eighty years old he emigrated to New York U.S.A. where his children had already gone. He died there about nineteen hundred and eleven and is buried in Calvary Cemetry.
The house in which he lived is now occupied by Martin Cox whose father the late Wm. Cox purchased it from Maher, when the latter decided to emigrate to the U.S.A. in 1907.About 1798 there lived at Ballyphilip Parish of Ballingarry, Barony of Slievardagh, County Tipperary, a man named Michael Kennedy, or as it was then spelled Kinedy.
After ploughing all day, this man was known to have taken off his bawneeen or flannel waistcoat in the evening, place it beside his team, go back some distance, race forward, take off the bawneen and(continues on next page)
- Informant
- John Connors
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 70
- Occupation
- Clerk
- Address
- An Chlais Dubh, Co. Thiobraid Árann
