Local Heroes

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Local Heroes      5th June 1938

Many years ago there lived in Mullahoran a man named Patrick McDermot who was the strongest man in the parish.  He was always boasting of his strength so the people called him "The Heroe."
He could carry three times his own weight up fourteen steps of a ladder.  he could throw a weight of four stone across a rope ten feet in height.
One evening many people came to see him throw, and Patrick was very proud.  He challenged a few men to beat him in

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but none were able untill a tall man which none could reconise, but afterwards known as Casey from America stood up and took the weight in his hand and threw it ten and a half feet.  Patrick was very vexed and went home without saying a word, and never threw a weight again, as the old proverb is often correct "Pride gets a fall."

By Annie Comaskey,
Cloncovid, Kilcogy, Co. Cavan.

Got from - Patrick Sheridan
Cloncovid, Kilcogy, Co. Cavan.