A Gentleman after our Liking

Marcel Krueger
Aug 28, 2017 · 1 min read

Over seventy years ago a English officer who was stationed in Dundalk barracks was a renowned walker and for a wager of £50 he agreed to to walk fifty miles in ten hours. The measurements were taken from Ferguson’s well Blackrock to Elphisons’ bridge above Blackrock which is one statute mile. Walking back and forward he had completed the fifty mile journey within three or four minutes of the time, and took lunch in the Clermont Arms Hotel during the time, so he won the £50.

Josie Mc Keown, The “Square”, Blackrock, Dundalk.
Information received from Mr Ed Mc Keown, The “Square”,1937.

From the fantastic Schools’ Collection, a collection of folklore compiled by schoolchildren in Ireland in the 1930s.

The Dundalk Bureau of Perambulatory Investigations

… for I do not understand, and I shall never understand , how it can be a pleasure to hurtle past all the images and objects which our beautiful earth displays, as if one had gone mad and had to accelerate for fear of misery and despair.

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The Dundalk Bureau of Perambulatory Investigations

… for I do not understand, and I shall never understand , how it can be a pleasure to hurtle past all the images and objects which our beautiful earth displays, as if one had gone mad and had to accelerate for fear of misery and despair.

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