School: Tattenclave
- Location:
- Tattintlieve, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: B. Ní Chróinín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0949, Page 138
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- (continued from previous page)gentlemen gave him an overcoat and a pound in gold.
- Owen Brady of Descart threw a fifty six pound weight eleven yards. My great grandfather walked from Belfast to Calliagh. Patrick Glenn Dooskey was a good singer and bow-fiddler in his day. My grandfather was a good step dancer and his name was Mick Ward. Patrick Corrigan Calliagh mowed three roods of corn in a day.
- James Hunter held a man twelve stone weight and held him for four minutes on his hand. The man's name was John Brady Lisnagonivay.
John Farmer, my father's grandfather could lift thirty two stone of corn up on a horses back. There were no carts in that time. They carried everything on horseback. That happened sixty one years ago. James Smyth Inagh walked every(continues on next page) - Collector
- James Farmer
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Liscumasky, Co. Monaghan
