Scoil: St John of God Convent, Rathdowney (uimhir rolla 16203)

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1. Local Heroes

   

   Roinn Roinn Postáil

   Of all the strong and noteworthy men who lived in this parish during the past fifty years, Mr Rodger Carroll, Bawn, Johnstown was perhaps the best known. His great strength won for him the admiration of everybody who knew him. One can ask no better enjoyment that to listen to stories of his feats of strength. He was a blacksmith by trade and when once he caught the horse's foot in his hand to put on the shoe no force would release it. No matter how strong the horse pulled he never relaxed his grip and he shoed four horses to every other smith's one. In his youth he worked in American with a German and his fascinating stories of his duties while there are still told.

   About 1840 Mr Martin ONeill was appointed Principal of Galmoy National School. His home in Johnstown was four miles from his work and in these days there were no bicycles or motor-cars. He walked to and from his work every day for about forty years and he never took a holiday. He made the journey in less than half an hour.

   My father, who owns a threshing machine, had in his employment a man named Sylvester Campion, Galmoy. One day he shoved he thresher which weighs five tons, a distance of several yards, unaided. It was not down a hill either, but on soft level land.

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