School: Newbliss (roll number 8328)
- Location:
- Newbliss, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: Margaret E. Doogan
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0950, Page 223
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- 223Local HeroesMr Tommy Allely can throw a weight of seven lbs eight and a half feet.Mr John Wiggins won a bicycle race against eight others. He went two miles in ten minutes.Mr Fred Craig Newbliss could lift a big sledge in his hand, turn it over his shoulder, and touch it with his mouth.Mr John Herbert Lisnagore Newbliss could swim round and round a lake with a man on his back.Mr Pat McCabe Newbliss ran after a rabbit until he caught it.Mr McGuirk Kinturk ran from Newbliss to Dundalk which is a distance of thirty miles inside seven hours.Mr Joe Lee can throw a cwt bag of potatoes, over his shoulders unto his back.Mr Jim Smith can ride a bicycle backwards and guide it quite straight, as if he were riding it properly.Collected from Mr J Hall Newbliss Co. Monaghan.Mr James Doherty when he was a boy of nine years old walked from Drum to Monaghan one twelfth(continues on next page)
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- Mr B. Doherty
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Kinturk, Co. Monaghan
