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1. Severe Weather (continued)

   

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   1900. It tossed Pat Glen's room in Tonagh. When he was in bed, there came a big storm and tossed the room on top of him and he was killed. He was thirty-seven years.

   

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2. Local Happenings

   

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   Local Happenings (Frank Moyna). 37 years ago, Jim Boylan who lived in Corcahan was coming home from Leonard' public house, drunk when he was passing by a bog hole. He staggered into it and was drowned. About 50 years ago, the three-mile-house schoolboys were coming from school. One of the boys went hiding in a bog and when the rest of the boys went to look for him they could not find him. They started to call out but he never appeared to them. They went home to his parents and told them about him. The children and the boy's father and mother went looking behind for him. They couldn't find him. One of them went back to the house for a drag. When he came back, the father of the boy started to look (in) all the

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   Topics

   1. events
      1. hardship (~1,565)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Frank Moyna

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   13

   Address

   Tattintlieve, Co. Monaghan

   Informant

   Frank Moyna

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   48

   Occupation

   Farmer

   Address

   Tattintlieve, Co. Monaghan