School: Taobh Breac (roll number 15227)
- Location:
- Tievebrack, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Donnchadh E. Mac Congáile
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1098, Page 122
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- (continued from previous page)There was also a man drowned in Charles Mortlands of Ballygonigans mill-dam.His name was Edward Kennedy of Tievbrack.This man went to bathe in the mill dam one summer’s evening. There were other men with him. This boy dived to the bottom and was drowned. The other boys could not save him.There was a man named Dan Doherty of Meenlougher. He was drowned in the river Finn.He and another man went after their day’s work to bathe. Neither of them were good swimmers. This man swam into a turn pool in the river.About ten minutes after that there were hundreds of people there.The man had Scapulars on him but he took them off. The priest said if he had kept on the Scapulars he wouldn’t have been drowned.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Patrick Carlin
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Dungorman, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- William J. Carlin
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Dungorman, Co. Donegal
