1. dúchas.ie
  2. The Schools' Collection
  3. Ceathrú Mhic Ruaidhrí

School: Ceathrú Mhic Ruaidhrí (roll number 10290)

Location:
Carrowcrory, Co. Sligo
Teacher:
Bean de Crochtun
Browse
Mode:
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0185, Page 0542

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0185, Page 0542

Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.

See copyright details.

Download

Open data

Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

  1. XML School: Ceathrú Mhic Ruaidhrí
  2. XML Page 0542
  3. XML “Local Heroes”

Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.

On this page

  1. Local Heroes

    Share Share Post
    Brian Breheny of Carrowreagh, Keash, was a champion weight thrower. He lived between seventy and seventy five years ago.
    At Castlebaldwin there used to be a competition on June 24th and all the strong men used to meet for weight throwing.
    On one occasion there were a lot of people assembled to see the competition. Several men threw the half hundred weight a great distance and Brian Brickney taking the weight threw it some feet beyond their marks.
    There lived in Meenmare, Keash a man named Langton who was a great mower.
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. agents (~1)
      1. historical persons (~5,068)
    Language
    English
    Informant
    John J. Keaveny
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Carrowreagh, Co. Sligo