School: An Clochar, Ceann Tuirc (roll number 10232)
- Location:
- Kanturk, Co. Cork
- Teacher: An tSr. Seosamh; An tSr. Berchmans
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0353, Page 417
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- This barony of Duhallow is renowned for hundreds of years for the prowess of its Athletes in all branches of sports. Ancient tradition has it that Max Ellistrum a famous Irish warrior who lived in the year 1647 threw a stone threw a stone weighing two tons from the top of Knock na Knus hill to a field in the valley of Ballyheen, a distance of about two miles. The stone is still to be seen and it is so large that I do not believe anyone could be strong enough to throw it, but the old people say it is true. There is another great feat attributed to a man named William Murphy of Liscarrol. He threw a hammer over these walls which are very high from one marked point to the other.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Barrett
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Kanturk, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Mr E.J. Barrett
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Kanturk, Co. Cork
