School: Woodland (roll number 8464)

Location:
Woodland, Co. Donegal
Teacher:
Mrs Crossan
Browse
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1085, Page 74

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1085, Page 74

Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.

See copyright details.

Download

Open data

Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

  1. XML School: Woodland
  2. XML Page 74
  3. XML “Local Happenings”
  4. XML “Local Happenings”
  5. XML “Local Happenings”

Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.

On this page

  1. (continued from previous page)
    About twelve years ago Robert Stewart was killed by falling from a large house in Castlewray. He was then living in Castlebar, Letterkenny.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
  2. The Laurentic was blown up by the Germans at Rathmullan during the Great War. My grandfather was at the killing of a whale which came into Lough Swilly. Its jaw blades were so big that a horse and cart could go through them.
    The spotted fever broke out in 1910. The people got ill at night and were dead in the morning.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. events
      1. hardship (~1,565)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    James Armour
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Loughnagin, Co. Donegal
  3. On Lough Swilly below Rathmullen, there was a big cargo of gold sailing. The crew saw a vision like a man in a curragh. with his hand out-stretched. They drew near the edge and said some prayers.
    Proceeding they saw the sky darkening and they became afraid. Then the wind rose and going under shelter they dashed against a rock. All the gold was lost. There were about six of a crew in the boat. Five were drowned and only one sailor was saved. The caper caught hold of the top of his boat. Another came along and brought him home. This happened about twenty years ago. Since then divers went down and brought up the
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.