School: Baile Uaitéir (Walterstown) (roll number 12281)
- Location:
- Walterstown, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Seán Ó Raghaill
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- Walterstown, Co. Cork
- Mowing:
Two local men named Michael Sliney of Belgrove, and William Verling of Walterstown were great mowers in their day, and often mowed an acre and a half of hay with a reaping hook, in a day.
(Margaret Wilson)Weight Lifting :-
Patrick O Connell of Ballymore was able to lift sixteen stone of grain, and he was able to throw the half cwt; twenty three feet in the year. (1907)A Local man named Michael Sliney of Belgrove, won Cork County Championship for the hundred yards at Carrignafoy Cobh, in the year (1911)
