School: Ballyheaffy (B.), Baile Dubh (roll number 10387)

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   is still living used to lift heavy weights and large tables with his teeth for bets.
   Thomas Mór Brunnock or Big Tom who lived in Doon, Araglen, Kilworth, Co. Cork often brought sacks of wheat down to Clogheen. He had to carry it a bad road through the mountains to Flemingstown Hills to ge tit crushed into flour and bring the flour home on his back. He died about forty years ago and he was living in our house and my father remembered him well. He was also a great stone thrower and he used to challenge men from the County Limerick,
   The two Quirkes of Doon, Thomas and James, were noted hunters. Thomas is alive but James died a few years ago. They always kept a greyhound. On one occasion they were poaching for hares and the hound gave up after a long run. The Quirkes themselves took up the chase and caught the hare.
   Thomas Scanlon who lived in Ballyheaffy Upper was once a great mower. He used to go to County Limerick harvesting and he used to cut about three acres of hay and four acres of oats in two days. The people got jealous and told him that they would get a man as good as him in County

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   Topics

   1. agents (~1)
      1. historical persons (~5,068)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   James Brunnock

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Doon, Co. Tipperary

   Informant

   Michael Brunnock

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   49

   Address

   Doon, Co. Tipperary