School: Clochar
- Location:
- Clogher, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: Bean Uí Dhimsithigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0939, Page 044
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- (continued from previous page)Jim Corrie is a good shot he won the prize at at Clogher School. A man named Johney Duffy is a good shot for shooting rabbits or birds or wild ducks. Hall St Ballybay. A man named Samson can drive a nail through a six inch plank with his hand. he works with Duffy's circus.
- A man named Pat Winters of Knappah Ballybay can throw a stone nine feet away. Pat Winters can sit flat on the floor with a tin of water on his head and get up with out spilling the water. The same man can also run as quick as a motor car. A man named Frank Brians of Tonny-glasson can jump a space of twenty feet wide. A man named James Ross can jump a river ten feet wide. he lives in Ballybay. A man named Jack Weir can lift two fifty sis pound weights and put them over his head.
- Collector
- Samuel Ross
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Tonyglassan, Co. Monaghan
- Informant
- Mrs Ross
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Tonyglassan, Co. Monaghan
