School: Ballyheaffy (B.), Baile Dubh (roll number 10387)
- Location:
- Ballyeafy, Co. Waterford
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Néill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0634, Page 51
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Local Heroes (continued)
“There is a man known as William Gorman, Araglen, Kilworth, Co. Cork who could lift a stone five cwts. weight.”
(continued from previous page)There once was a man named James Dwyer nicknamed Fillpot. He lived in the Square of Ballyporeen, County Tipperary. He was going to the fair of Dungarvan along a hilly road.
As he was passing by a forge where a smith was working, he asked the smith for a match. As the smith had no match, he brought him out a spark of fire upon the anvil.
He handed the anvil to "Fillpot" and the latter turned the spark of fire into his pipe, handed the anvil back again to the smith. The smith said "You are a better man than me".
There was another man named Thomas Martin who used to lift a large wheelbarrow with his teeth and walk a quarter of a mile with it.
There was another man named Pat Keane who used to take the axle of a
- Collector
- Patrick Buckley
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Gortnaskehy, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Patrick Donovan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 40
- Address
- Gortnaskehy, Co. Cork