School: Inistioge (B.) (roll number 1916)
- Location:
- Inistioge, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Máirtín Breathnach
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0859, Page 116
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- (continued from previous page)Strong Men.
Patrick Burke Inistioge was a great weight lifter. If he wanted to bring a plough or roller from one field to another he would take it on his shoulder. Ther was a roller that no one but himself would lift. He never put anything in a cart.Patrick Grace Brittas beat Patrick Dwyer Brittas in lifting a heavy stone.Patrick Meaney Kiltown, Inistioge, was a very strong man. One day when he was very angry he seized his own ass which was in a field and threw him over a high hedge. He pulled tug-o'-war with some other men against a picked team from Guinnesse's Brewery, Dublin, and defeated them. He did not enter for anything else.Denis Mc Donald Tullogher, Inistioge, was a great weight(continues on next page)
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