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School: Ráth Dubh, An Bhlárna (roll number 8393)

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Rathduff, Co. Cork
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D. Ó Súilleabháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0389, Page 017

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    About eighty years ago a man named Bill Sheehan, who lived in Mallow could carry a cart of oats up the street at his ease. Farmers employed him when their horses failed to pull the load. He would simply put the ridge-band on his shoulder and pull the cart after him. Another of his feats of strength was to knock a bull with a blow of his fist and he used to say when the bull was down "get up you rascal I never struck a man down".
    A man named Harry O'Sullivan from Nadd was a great runner. He made a pair of
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