Scoil: Clochar na Trócaire, Cill na Mullach (uimhir rolla 11855)

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1. Local Heroes

   

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   Local Heroes

   Long before the dawn of organised athletics, the fame of semi-legendary local athletes had penetrated far beyond the confines of Butttevant parish. In the absence of written proof of their prowess, it is impossible to compare accurately their feats with the carefully registered outstanding performances of their successors, but one clings to belief of the veracity of romantic accounts which have come down to us, with a wealth of picturesque detail of phenomenal leaps from river-bank to river-bank, and mighty flings of weight-throwers across ravines or over lofty castle walls that dwarf anything to be found in modern second-books; for making due allowance for old time exaggeration, it can be safely assured that our physically strong, active and courageous ancestors, who gloried in manliness and necessarily

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   Tras-scríofa ag duine dár meitheal tras-scríbhneoirí deonacha.

   Stair Athraigh

   Topaicí

   1. gníomhairí (~1)
      1. pearsana stairiúla (~5,068)

   Teanga

   Béarla

   Faisnéiseoir

   Mr Thomas Neenan

   Inscne

   Fireann

   Aois

   61

   Seoladh

   Baile Maigiú, Co. Chorcaí