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   stones and big rocks at that. There was a [?] this haggard and it is there yet. There was a big rock outside the gate about three or four [?] weight so as to [?] the gate shut. Many a man tried remove the rock but it failed them. When it failed them, all he got was a middle size rock and put one top of each other and lifted them three feet high. So they saw how good he was and they saw that it was no use for them to be lifting stones with him, because he was too strong a man for them. Timothy Riordan Mullin was the most famous man for lifting sacks of grain. He lifted a bag of potatoes was contained twenty seven stone weight of the ground up on the table. He [?] a very big man, and his weight twenty stone. Micael Moynaham Ballydesmond lifted a table two cut with his teeth that was a brave act. He must have good teeth. They had a lot of opponents as matter to find out who was the best [?]. That was the case always with he people killing them-selves for nothing. They had opponents [?] [?] and onlookers as [?]

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   Topics

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

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Humphrey O Leary

   Gender

   Male

   Informant

   Free Leary

   Gender

   Male