School: Inniskeen (roll number 13396)
- Location:
- Inishkeen, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: Louis A. Duffy
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“There lived a man in the townland of Dromore, Inniskeen, Co. Monaghan, called James Hamill.”
(continued from previous page)could lift, eight and three quarter hundred - weights. James Hamill lifted the eight and three quarter hundred weights and walked about two perches. Then James Mc Guill said. "if you lift a ton I will I will lift it after you"? The people nicknamed him the "Tonman" after that.- James Kirk, Blackstaff, Inniskeen, Co. Monaghan, was known over the country as a famous runner. He could run four hundred yards in forty seconds.