School: Cnuicín na hAbhann
- Location:
- Knockeennahone, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Dairmuid Ó Teangnaigh
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- (continued from previous page)sacks of meal up on the firkins but he could not. If that time Sean Burns was about 70 years old and he came to help Horan; he caught the sack of meal with Horan and he threw it over the car. Then he put the two sacks up on the car alone without any trouble.
- Another good strong man was Jack Crowley of Dirreen, an uncle to Michael Crowley of Derreen. Long ago people had a habit of storing oats in a canvas sheet; about three bags of oats would get into this sheet. One day Jack Crowley carried it out a small door, and carried about a half a mile on his back.
On another occasion he was "carring" to Cork. One day he was coming from Cork, and was as far as Ballydesmond, when the horse got tired; or he pulled the car and about 18 owls in it as far as Knocknaboul cross, a distance of about a mile and a quarter, . - Informant
- Michael Crowley
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 68
- Address
- Derreen, Co. Kerry
