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School: Béal an Átha Móir (C.) (roll number 13614)

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Ballinamore, Co. Leitrim
Teacher:
An tSr. Áthracht
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0225, Page 032

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    There was a maned named Patrick Reynolds, he could lift one fourteen stone [?] under each arm off his cart and carry it at a walking pace in to the corn mill at Sligo.
    My grandfather could carry forty two stone sacks from one end of the loft to the other for a bet it was almost four times his own weight. How those men got their practices of weight carrying, they used to [?] corn in this county and cart it to Sligo mill.
    Their names were Patrick Reynolds from (Leitrim)
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. agents (~1)
      1. historical persons (~5,068)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Chris O' Connell
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    11
    Address
    Killadough, Co. Leitrim
    Informant
    Peter O Connell
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Killadough, Co. Leitrim