School: Clais (roll number 8692)
- Location:
- Clash, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Cristíona Ní Chearbhalláinn
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- (continued from previous page)years when he died. He never fought with anybody but he did very heavy work. One day he was coming home from the bog with a load of block stone turf. It was very heavy turf you would see none of that turf now. The wheel fell out from under the car at the top of Moneygall Street and he carried it down to the bottom of the steet. When he went to the bottom of the street he lifted up the horse and cart of turf with one hand and put the wheel in with the other. One Sunday he carried three men from his own house to Moneygall. He used to carrry very heavy weights from one place to another. He carried a big flag with one hand from a house a mile away from his own house.
