School: An Ghráinseach, Cluain Meala (roll number 7982)
- Location:
- An Ghráinseach, Co. Thiobraid Árann
- Teacher: Séamus Ó Maolchathaigh
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- (continued from previous page)Micil Riobárd was a great wrestler. No one ever knocked him. Mulcahys of Corabella had a meithiol reaping. some man in the meithiol was boasting about how good he was for wrestling. Didn't they send up to Flemingstown in the middle of the harvest day (about 2 miles) for Micil Riobárd to come down and wrestle him. Micil came down and he knocked him.
There was a chapel long ago in the field where Mrs Ahern's cottage is in Clocully. It was called the chapel of Bally Gilibert.
Note: The field is in the north west of the townland of Clocully.
Thomas Walsh can speak Irish fairly well. No one else in the locality can speak it - even people of 70 years of age. He was born and lived all his life in the place.
* He pronounced it "Roibeárd"
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- Thomas Walsh
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 88
- Occupation
- Labourer
- Address
- Darú, Co. Phort Láirge