School: Drakestown, Ardee (roll number 1554)
- Location:
- Drakestown, Co. Louth
- Teacher: Michael Ó Flynn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0668, Page 321
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- One day Luke Duffy from Ardee was working in Kilpatrick. He tied four 1/2 cwt. weights together with a rope and put a handkerchief in on them and lifted them from the ground with his teeth. Duffy died about 30 years ago.One day Paddy Lynch of Stoneylane, Ardee was attending a threshing in Harlestone. Mr. Steen told him if he carried a barrel of wheat from Harlestone to Stoneylane he would give the wheat to him. So he carried it without a stop, a distance of over two miles. Lynch died about 30 years ago.
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- Informant
- Brian Mathews
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Anaglog, Co. Louth
