Scoil: Newbliss (uimhir rolla 8328)

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1. Local Heroes

   

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   Local Heroes

   Mr Tommy Allely can throw a weight of seven lbs eight and a half feet.

   Mr John Wiggins won a bicycle race against eight others. He went two miles in ten minutes.

   Mr Fred Craig Newbliss could lift a big sledge in his hand, turn it over his shoulder, and touch it with his mouth.

   Mr John Herbert Lisnagore Newbliss could swim round and round a lake with a man on his back.

   Mr Pat McCabe Newbliss ran after a rabbit until he caught it.

   Mr McGuirk Kinturk ran from Newbliss to Dundalk which is a distance of thirty miles inside seven hours.

   Mr Joe Lee can throw a cwt bag of potatoes, over his shoulders unto his back.

   Mr Jim Smith can ride a bicycle backwards and guide it quite straight, as if he were riding it properly.

   Collected from Mr J Hall Newbliss Co. Monaghan.

   Mr James Doherty when he was a boy of nine years old walked from Drum to Monaghan one twelfth

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