School: Leac Snámha (B.) (roll number 10957)
- Location:
- Lixnaw, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Dáithí. B. Ó Duilleáin
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- (continued from previous page)ago since these strong men lived in Ennismore.
James King of Muckenaugh was also a great stone thrower. A hundred-weight stone was in the townland of Old Courts. Every Sunday James King used to raise the stone to his knees and throw it a considerable distance.
I have heard of one great runner in this locality. His name was Joseph McAuliffe of Dysert, Lixnaw. Once he was challenged by a man named Halpin to run a race from Tralee to Killarney. The race was to take place a week afterwards and it did. McAuliffe won the race and for his victory he was presented with a leather bag, a dinner service and other things, as a reward for running that distance in twenty-five minutes.
Also in the locality was a very swift walker named Thomas O'Connor of Ballinclogher. He could walk from his own house to Ballymacelligott, a distance of seventeen miles, in less than an hour. He(continues on next page)- Collector
- Jeremiah Keane
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Kiltomy, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- Patrick Mulcahy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Kiltomy, Co. Kerry