School: Clonmore, Piltown (roll number 13420)
- Location:
- Clonmore, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Bríd Nic Aodhgáin
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"Local Heroes"
Nicholas Doherty Mooncoin often carried a sack of meal under each arm.
Tom Gorman Cloncunny used to lift a heavy roller into a car without any help.
Ned Keeffe Mooncoin was a great mower he often mowed three acres of corn in one day by himself.
Mrs Burn Mooncoin was a great walker every day she walked over twenty miles delivering the post as she went along.
John Walsh Mooncoin was a champion of the world for throwing the fifty six lbs over a bar which was fourteen feet seven inches high.
Paddy Brien Grange used to walk sixteen miles every day for ten years.
