School: Tolerton, Ballylickmoyler (roll number 11321)
- Location:
- Towlerton, Co. Laois
- Teacher: L. Ó Broin
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- (continued from previous page)went out into a potatoefield. It is said that when night came, that Thomas Brennan had a larger quantity of potatoes taken out of the soil that the other man. He was afterwards thought a very strong man.
There was a man named Daniel Kelly, Newtown, Crettyard, Leix, who was known as a great weight lifter. He is said to have once lifted a stone which was thought to have been about five hundreds in weight. He was also thought to be a great weight thrower as he once threw a weight of fifty six pounds a distance of thirty feet.
A very swift runner was said to have lived in the townland of Newtown in olden times. He is said to have(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Kathleen King
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Towlerton, Co. Laois
- Informant
- George King
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Towlerton, Co. Laois
