School: Lismacaffry
- Location:
- Lismacaffry, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: Ml. Ó Gamhna
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0739, Page 210
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- (continued from previous page)About 1920 there was a family living in Chancery house by the name of Conarty. One day there was one of the family being buried and that night a little boy went out and he was blown away by the wind the next day he was found dead.
One Sunday evening in 1932 John Cruise's house went on fire. A lot of people went to help and saved a lot of things. There was a little dog in it and no matter what the people did they could not get him to leave it until he was burned to death.
Tomas Reilly a native of Edgeworthstown was drowned the time the Titanic was wrecked.
There was once a man living near Rathowen, one Sunday he went to the village and when he came home his whole house and all that was in flames.
There was a poor woman whose name was Peggie Devaney, drowned in an old drain in Fermore about forty years ago.
In 1936 Edward McGerr had a ewe that had four lambs two in January and two the following November.
Thomas Maclarney of Killashallow had a(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Hugh Sullivan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Kilfintan, Co. Longford
