School: Baile Dubh (2), (B.)
- Location:
- Ballyduff, Co. Waterford
- Teacher: Seán Ó Murchadha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0634, Page 322
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- John Egan Tobin was born in Ballyduff. He was a very famous athlete, a runner particularly. He jumped into a meat barrel with a half hundred weight suspended from each small finger and wrote his name inside with the half-weight on the fingers and jumped out again.
In
Cahir, Co. Tipperary he beat a race horse in a hundred yards sprint. It took him nine, two fifth seconds to do it. He beat an Englishman name O Curry who challenged him in Lismore and he beat him. There was a record crowd to witness the contest.
A
local man named James Condon walked from Ballyduff to Dungarvan a distance of twenty miles. It took him an hour to walk it. He was going to a fair. The famous runner jumped over a carriage and two horses. Garret Cotter a famous swimmer swam from Lismore to Ballyduff against the current.
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- Richard Tobin
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- Address
- Ballyduff, Co. Waterford
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- Mr Richard Tobin
- Gender
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- Address
- Ballyduff, Co. Waterford
