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1. The Strong Man of Rath

   

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   Once upon a time and a very good time it was not in my time or your time but in our greatgrandfather's time
   There lived in the parish of Rath a very strong man by the name of Flynn. When he was about thirty years of age a great famine came on the country and when spring came none of the people had any seed potatoes There was a friend of Flynn's living near Ennis and he said that he would give him all the seedpotatoes he would carry on his back but he warned him not to stop in the road from once he would leave Ennis. Flynn went home full of joy and he ordered his wife to empty the feather's out of the tick and so she did. He took the tick and away he went When he reached his friend's yard he got orders to fill all the potartoes he wanted He held filling the tick until he had sixty stone, and then he told the servants to lift it on his back but they said that he would never carry such a heavy load There was a

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

   Stair Athraigh

   Teanga

   Béarla

   Bailitheoir

   Mary Leahy

   Inscne

   Baineann

   Seoladh

   Coolshingaun, Co. an Chláir

   Faisnéiseoir

   Thomas Leahy

   Inscne

   Fireann

   Aois

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