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School: Inniskeen (roll number 13396)

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Inishkeen, Co. Monaghan
Teacher:
Louis A. Duffy
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0933, Page 042

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    “There lived a man in the townland of Dromore, Inniskeen, Co. Monaghan, called James Hamill.”

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    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.
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