School: Ballyheerin (roll number 16279)
- Location:
- Ballyheerin, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Aodh Ó Frighil
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1090, Page 181
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- (continued from previous page)which lay on its outside, and their boat became holed. The water rushed in quickly and their craft was sinking fast and they were obliged to jump out on the rock. It was an incoming tide and soon the rock would be covered with water to about seven feet in depth. They began to call and roar and their loud yells echoed through hill and valley but they were heard not as it was late in the night and all their neighbourhood was bound in slumber's chain.
At last a man named Denis Kerr who happened to be late afoot, heard them. He went and wakened Richard Moore, his next door neighbour and the both of them took a boat and went out to the rock and rescued the people.
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- Collector
- Aodh Ó Frighil
- Gender
- Male
