School: An Drom (Drom Thurles) (roll number 585)

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1. Local Heroes - Strong Men (continued)

   

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   Suir, Co Tipperary, in Templemore Co Tipperary in the year 1845. These sports were largely attended. A prize of three pounds was awarded to him. This man could lift one barrel and a half of wheat on his back.

   

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2. Local Heroes - Great Jumpers

   

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   Patrick Burke, Ballaboy, in the townland of Ballaboy, parish of Upperchurch, Co. Tipperary, a well known Tipperary jumper, attended many sports in the district. He was born in the year 1858, and died the year 1914. At these sports a good many other jumpers challenged him, but he bet them all. This man jumped twenty-one feet in a long jump, and six feet in height. He was able to jump rivers and chasms measuring about twenty-two feet in width. In a sports in Nenagh, in Co. Tipperary, in the year 1886 he competed and beat some great jumpers. Amongst them were Thomas Keilly, Carrig-on-Suir, Co. Tipperary, Pat Shortt, Ballaboy, in the townland of ballaboy, parish of

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   Topics

   1. agents (~1)
      1. historical persons (~5,068)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Mary Ryan

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Kilvilcorris, Co. Tipperary

   Informant

   John Ryan

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Kilvilcorris, Co. Tipperary