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The Lost Irish Tradition Of Lifting Heavy Stones

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The Role of Women in the Irish Stone Tradition

There's a stone that will in far greater than county clear called clock nafar and there's also a woman's lifting stone, which is the first found in the whole world. So women are part of this tradition massively so there's just a man's lifting stone. But why did they sometimes call out of these stones manhood stones? Because I'll be honest, I wasn't mad about that base. You're reaching back to them, you know, back through the mister toying back through all the oppression and the famine and everything that went with it. It's fully immersed in Irish culture.

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