School: Ballyuskill (B.), Ballyragget
- Location:
- Ballyoskill, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: F. Mac Cárthaigh
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- William Doubt is a great weight lifter he lifted a horse's car wheel and put it on his nose and asked everybody in cual bán to do what he did and there was not a man able to do it. The weight of the wheel was six cwts two lls it was weighed before he lifted it his age is twenty
- Collector
- Michael Clancy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Rosconnell Glebe, Co. Laois
- Informant
- Alic Pearse
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Castlemarket, Co. Kilkenny
- Martin Hayden Castle Wood lifted a hay rake into a horse car he also turned a horse and car that was turned he lifted a stone roller into a car by himself
- Willie Lalor [of] Grennan Attanagh Leix was a good runner. He ran 220 yards in Mountrath in eighteen hundred and ninety eight. He did it in twenty one seconds. He won a silver teapot in Stradbally and a bicycle race in Abbeyleix.
