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   hand and lift them over his head. The same man could lift a hundred weight bag of cement in each hand and throw them into a cart.

   There was a boy from Tory Island named Paddy Duggan, who was eighteen years of age. He and his father and other men went out fishing at Ramelton. There was a big stone in this place, and his father told him to lift it. He did so, and he asked his father where he would throw it. He told him to throw it over this wall, and the boy just threw it over. The stone is still lying in the same place at Ramelton.

   There was another man named John Sweeney from Ray. He was away in America and while he was there, he lifted five hundred and twenty-five pounds weight at the one time.

   There was a man from Glenalla named Robert Wallace, and he was known as the strongest man in the whole district. One time he went to the mill to get thorn thrashed. The mill was about twenty yards in from the road, and when the corn was threshed, he carried five hundred weights of corn from the mill out to the road, to put on the carts.

   There was another John Sweeney from Ray and he lifted forty stones of corn on to a horse's back. All these men were very big and strong, but they are

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   Topics

   1. agents (~1)
      1. historical persons (~5,068)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Eithne Nic an t Saoir

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Ray, Co. Donegal

   Informant

   Peadar Uí Ghallochbhair

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   73

   Occupation

   Feirmeoir

   Address

   Ray, Co. Donegal