School: Bealach, Bansha (roll number 1131)
- Location:
- Ballagh, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: S. Meiscill
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0575, Page 272
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
Download
Open data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Bealach, Bansha
- XML Page 272
- XML (no title)
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
(no title)
“Mr James Wall of Bansha told me about the following people whom he knew about 50 years.”
Mr. James Wall of Bansha told me about the following people whom he knew about 50 yrs ago. There was a man named Tobin of Ballylooby, Cahir and another man named J. Mitchel of Emly, and these were the greatest weight-throwers in Co. Tipperary at that time.
There was a man named John Culnane living in Bansha who lifted 30 stone of grain.
Thomas Kennedy, Rathdermot, Bansha, lifted 25 stone of potatoes off the ground into a car.
Michael Power, Kilshane, tied 1/2 cwt on his little finger and wrote his name with a slate on the wall opposite him.
Ned Paorac, Bansha threw a stone 200 yds.
- Collector
- Seán Ó Dálaigh
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Mr James Wall
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Bansha, Co. Tipperary