School: Dún Bhéacháin (Dunbeacon) (roll number 15552)
- Location:
- Dunbeacon, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Tomás Ó Foghlú
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0289, Page 166
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- (continued from previous page)buttons of some clothing he went to the Civic Guards who told the boy's father. It was then said that the bones were those of the Donovan boy and the buttons were those of his clothing. His father then placed them in a coffin and buried them.
It has been said that a Protestant man found the body before it had decayed and although he knew the story and had even searched for the boy he had left the body where he had found it. Four or five years after the bones being found that man was found dead in the very same spot as the bones of the boy.
- Thatching was carried on to great extent in Dreenlomane, for the houses were thatch-roofed until lately. It is said that the thatchers were skilled hands, but only one of the thatchers now lives, his name is Mr Mahony, Dreenlomane.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Teresa Coughlan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Derreennalomane, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Mr T. Burke
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 70
- Address
- Derreennalomane, Co. Cork
