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   O Mara after defeated John Lawlor of Cordal at the hop-step and jump by the margin of 4 inches at the first G.A.A. sports in Castleisland.

   When Lawlor was a man of middle age he jumped the chapel gate. at Cordal in the presence of the congregation ; It was no trouble to him to jump three big horses in a row in his youth.

   

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2. Local Heroes

   

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   A man by the name of James Fitzgerald, Curranes, was reckoned as the strongest man in this district. He could lift a bag of grain from the ground with his two hands and plce it in a car. A man by the name of Denis Welsh Reineen tried to rival him but he could only just lift it off the ground by the help of his two knees. Also a son of Sam Hussey, the Landlord of Edenburn, was a man of fame on every sportsfield in Munster, He could not be beaten where-ever he went. But one day a man by the name of O Mara, Alish, Killarney challenged him for a run at Tralee. Hussey accepted the challenge and they ran a couple of days afterwards.

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   Topics

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

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Denis Brosnan

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Lackabaun, Co. Kerry

   Informant

   Maurice Hickey

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   c. 70

   Address

   Lackabaun, Co. Kerry