School: Grangeford, Tullow
- Location:
- Grangeford, Co. Carlow
- Teacher: Leanne Doyle
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0907, Page 243
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- (continued from previous page)Sir T Butler gave him his horse to leave the scene in haste. Dwyer was then Champion Wrestler of the British Isles.
- William Curran, known as " Big William", in the townland of Busherstown and Parish of Tinryland, Co. Carlow. He was a fine man about six feet four inches in height and about eighteen stone in weight. He was a great wrestler but was thrown once by James Dwyer the champion wrestler of the British Isles. He was also a powerful mower and a great thresher in the time of the flail-threshing. William Curran being a man of wealth never knew what he could do at labour. There is a story told of himself ans a workman named Henry Pearson of a bet of £5 for the mowing of a piece of corn. Pearson(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Katie Byrne
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Grangeford, Co. Carlow
- Informant
- Mrs Farrell
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Busherstown, Co. Carlow
