School: Ardnagrath (roll number 5963)
- Location:
- Ardnagragh, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: M. Ní Mhaoldhomhnaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0747, Page 355
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- 2 About fifty years ago there lived in Tang a man named John Ward. He carried eight cwt. up eight steps of a ladder, where he was building a house. The people of the district went to see the stone he carried up the ladder. He only laughed at them and he said it was a very small lift for a strong man. So to prove his strength to these people he put a log which weighed fifteen cwt. standing on its ends.
He was about forty years of age when he did this.
- Informant
- Mr Thomas Kerrigan
- Gender
- Male
