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School: Hospital Convent (roll number 13898)

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Hospital, Co. Limerick
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Sr. Bernard
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0515, Page 137

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    Mr Patrick Ryan, Castlefarm Hospital, Co. Limerick could lift a weight weighing sixteen stones and throw it fifteen stones away. He could lift a bag of potatoes weighing seventeen stone. One day he challenged a man named Mr John Hayes, Castlefarm Hospital, Co. Limerick, to see which of them could throw a stone, weighing twenty stone the farthest. Mr. J. Walsh, Castlefarm Hospital, Co. Limerick who witnessed this, measured the distance both men threw it so it was found that Mr Patrick Ryan had thrown it the farthest.
    Several men long ago amused themselves in this way and
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. agents (~1)
      1. historical persons (~5,068)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Kitty O' Connell
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Castlefarm, Co. Limerick
    Informant
    Mr P. O' Connell
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Castlefarm, Co. Limerick