School: Drummond
- Location:
- Drummin, Co. Carlow
- Teacher: P. Ó Murchadha
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- (continued from previous page)whom he recognised as a great thrower who had died long before that. The man threw the stone and it never stopped until it landed in Ballyknock. Andrew followed the stone until he came to the place where the stone was. He caught the stone and lifted it up on a ditch, and it is said that as many as four hundred people used to come every Sunday to try and lift the stone. But it was never stirred from where Andrew Neill put it.
- Collector
- Richard Gladney
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Saint Mullin's, Co. Carlow
- Informant
- Michael Carrol
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 75
- Address
- Bauck, Co. Carlow
