School: Ardrahan, Mainistir Ó dTórna (roll number 13167)

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1. Local Heroes (continued)

   “Sheon Burns a native of this place was supposed to be the strongest man in his generation.”

   

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   anvil and coal together and dropped the coal nicely into the pipe which proves he was even a stronger man than Sheon himself. Sheon was born somewhere about Listowel but was reared by an Aunt of his who formerly lived in the very place where we are living at present in Kilgulbin.

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2. Local Heroes

   “There was a Mrs O'Sullivan in Lerrig in Ardfert district some years ago and she had a daughter four years old who had a very sore leg.”

   

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   There was a Mrs O'Sullivan in Lerrig in Ardfert district some years ago and she had a daughter four years old who had a very sore leg. She tried many doctors with her but any of them could not cure her so she heard of a woman in Blarney in county Cork who had a cure for the sore. One morning bright and early she set off for Blarney with the little girl on her back. She arrived at Blarney that evening and was home at Lerrig the next evening about 4 o'clock.
   If the woman lived now she would be ninety eight years.

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