School: Na Corráin (roll number 9938/9)
- Location:
- Currans, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Cormac Ó Muircheartaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0446, Page 171
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- (continued from previous page)O Mara after defeated John Lawlor of Cordal at the hop-step and jump by the margin of 4 inches at the first G.A.A. sports in Castleisland.When Lawlor was a man of middle age he jumped the chapel gate. at Cordal in the presence of the congregation ; It was no trouble to him to jump three big horses in a row in his youth.
- A man by the name of James Fitzgerald, Curranes, was reckoned as the strongest man in this district. He could lift a bag of grain from the ground with his two hands and plce it in a car. A man by the name of Denis Welsh Reineen tried to rival him but he could only just lift it off the ground by the help of his two knees.
Also a son of Sam Hussey, the Landlord of Edenburn, was a man of fame on every sportsfield in Munster, He could not be beaten where-ever he went. But one day a man by the name of O Mara, Alish, Killarney challenged him for a run at Tralee. Hussey accepted the challenge and they ran a couple of days afterwards.(continues on next page) - Collector
- Denis Brosnan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Lackabaun, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- Maurice Hickey
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- c. 70
- Address
- Lackabaun, Co. Kerry
