School: Skerries, Athy (roll number 10975)
- Location:
- Skerries North, Co. Kildare
- Teacher: E. Tansey
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- The best man around here in the past years for throwing was John Owns from Nicholastown, Athy. He went from place in the Co Kildare throwing weights
The weight he threw was a half hundred. The length he threw it was 21 feet. John Owns is alive still. He is alive still. He is 50 years of age. He was also a tug-a-war man He won many medals for weight throwing and also for tug-a-war pulling. My Father told me this.
- Collector
- Laurence Blanchfield
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Youngstown, Co. Kildare
