School: Tooreen (St. Brigid's)
- Location:
- Tooreen, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Áine Ní Fhlannagáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0112, Page 99
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- The people are not as strong now as they were in the olden times.
My grand-uncle was a very strong man he often carried seven hundred and a half up twelve steps in a store in Ballyhaunis. I had another uncle who put a hundred weight up straight with one hand.
There was another man in Crossard who tied two half hundred weights to his hair and swung them round his head.
There was a man in Coolnaha named Paddy Freyne who was in town and he had a bag of flour to get home in a cart. He went into some house and he delayed, when he came out he found that the card was gone(continues on next page)
