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   “In the graveyard in Old Pallas there is a large Celtic cross erected by the people of the district to the memory of William Real of Pallasgreen.”

   

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   In the graveyard in Old Pallas there is a large Celtic cross erected by the people of the district to the memory of William Real of Pallasgreen.

   William Real was a farmer who lived in the townland of Ballinaclough. He was bron in 1861 and died in 1894. When he was only eighteen years of age he took up weight throwing. and so great was his strength that before he died he had made many Worlds' records.

   He was a very quiet man and it is said that he never stripped in a Athletic contest as athletes do now. He only took off his coat when he went to throw a weight. He never trained for weight throwing events as athletes do now, and he only took up the sport as a means of passing a Sunday evening.

   He travelled far to a sports meeting and most of his records were made at local sports. His first championship was won in eighteen eighty four when he threw the forty two lb weight twenty seven feet eight inches. He was only twenty three years of age then, and four years later he threw the twenty eight pound weight thirty three feet four and three quarter

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   History Edit

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Michael O Brien

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Moymore, Co. Limerick