School: Tolerton, Ballylickmoyler (roll number 11321)
- Location:
- Towlerton, Co. Laois
- Teacher: L. Ó Broin
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- Tom Toole is a very strong man. He would carry a cwt weight any distance.
Fred Thompson would carry 2 carts of flour 2 miles without getting a rest.
It is that Mr. O'Neill would carry or hold a car wheel on his lip. He was the strongest man in all Ireland.- Collector
- Thomas P. Brennan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Garrendenny, Co. Laois
- Informant
- Michael Walsh
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Towlerton, Co. Laois
- I caught a parrot and he used to talk. He told about the cook that she didn't know how to cook his dinner. "Oh" said she "what a bold fellow you are".
- The swallow builds with mud and feathers. He builds in a "cow house". The "stone chatter"(continues on next page)