School: Baile an Oileáin (B.) (roll number 2808)
- Location:
- Ballinillane, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Eoghan Ua Muircheartaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0460, Page 561
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- Strong man (a) Jack Carey of Scart, parish of Ballyhar, Co. Kerry, was a man weighing sixteen stone and a little over six feet in height. One one occasion he lifted a metal block weighing sixteen stone and threw it over a roadside fence. He died about fifty years ago.(b)Michael Hayes of Leamnaguilea, parish of Ballyhar, Co Kerry, carried a half sack of flour on his back from Farranfore to Leamnaguilea, a distance of three and a half miles. He died about fifteen years ago. He rested at intervals.(c)His brother Jeremiah Hayes took a sack of meal on his back from Scart Cross to Gowlane, parish of Fireies, Co. Kerry, a distance of three quarters of a mile, without resting. The rewards obtained for this fleat was one quart of sour milk and a quarter cake of pure yellow meal bread wet with water. He died about fifty years ago.Local Heroes (contd)Michael and Jeremiah(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Willie O' Leary
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballyhar, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- John Moriarty
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 74
- Address
- Ballyhar, Co. Kerry
