School: Killyconnan (B.)
- Location:
- Killyconnan, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: P. Kearney
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0979, Page 022
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- In the townland of Aughadreena in the parish of Lavey, there lived a man of enormous strength and huge stature. He was known locally as "Kiddy" Fleming. He was known to have pulled a horse out of a bog hole by seizing the animal by the tail and mane - a task which had failed twenty men. He was able to hoist upon his back a bag containing fifty stone weight, by placing his head on the ground, turning the bag in on his back and rising up. He was once attached by a crowd of five hundred men in the town of Cavan. He rushed and pulled a stirrup from a horse's saddle and by means of this he dispersed the crowd in all directions.
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About one hundred years ago there lived in the townland of Derryglen in the Parish of Lavey a man named Pat Brady. He was a noted runner being able to run across the country(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mr John Tierney
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Lavey, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Patrick Kearney
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Killyconnan, Co. Cavan
