School: Cill Bheoláin (B.), Áth an Mhuilinn, Ráth Luirc
- Location:
- Kilbolane, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Tadhg Ó Séaghdha
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- (continued from previous page)flour, under his arm, from Milford village to his home in Doona. He also threw the half cwt. weight eighteen feet.
The pupil's grandfather was a spectator.
- Maurice Fitzgibbon, Doona, Solomon Watson, John Watson, Thomas Watson & James Aylward could raise a barrel of porter (2 cwts) from the ground and place it on a high counter.
- John O'Brien (deceased) Lyragh, Charles Flynn (deceased) Prohurst, and Pat Duane, Gibbingsgrove, Newtown, Ráth Luirc were Milford's strongest men.
- Informant
- Mr John Mc Carthy
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- c. 68
- Address
- Maine North, Co. Cork
- Mr. Jn. Watson says that "Big Bill Leary", grand-uncle of Mr. John O'Leary, Castleishon (Castle), Drumcollogher, was the strongest man, in his time, in the whole of this area. Castleishon is in the Tullylease or Dromcollogher school district & a few miles from Milford. A yearling bull attacked Bill Bill & the latter cut his (the bull's) throat with a knife. On O'Leary's return from Drumcollogher, on one occasion, he pulled a cow out of a swamp that was inside the boundary of Milford parish - near Mr. Pat Savage's gate, Delliga, Milford. As a result, Big Bill, died.
