Scoil: Mín Charraigeach (uimhir rolla 7188)

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1. Heroes in this District Long Ago

   

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   No. 1—There was a man in Aughavoy, and he was a hundred and five years old when he died. When he was young he carried a two hundred-weight sack of oats from his own house to a mill two miles away. There were very few carts at this time so the people had to carry their food-stuffs from the town, and of course Neal Boyce who I am speaking of had to do the same, and many a heavy burden he carried to Aughavoy. He saw the foundation-satone of the old Church in Glennfinn being laid, and he also saw the foundation-stone of the present Church being laid. No. 2—Charley Magee was another very strong man, and he lived in the townland of Cappry about a mile from Ballybofey. He died two years ago at the age of seventy-three. He lifted an iron rail weighing five hundred-weight when he was nineteen years of age. He could carry the wheel of a cart on his chin. He dug on one occasion an acre of land, sowed the corn in it, and harrowed it all in one day. There were several swift runners in this

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   Béarla

   Bailitheoir

   John Mc Grory

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   Fireann

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   Meencrumlin, Co. Dhún na nGall

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   Willie Langan

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   Meencrumlin, Co. Dhún na nGall