Long ago, there lived a man in Streamstown named Brian Rafferty was able to go down on his knees and lift four ten stones cleeves of potatoes on his back.

John Carbrey a native of Killbegan was working in the Distillery in Killbegan and was able to get a bag of barley containing forty stone and carry it a ladder.A small man named Joseph Mooney was one of the best runners in Ireland. He beat a champion runner named Cunniffe in a half mile race in an Athletic Sports in Moate.A man named Thomas Kelly of Streamstown was able start walking to Dublin at rising of the sun