School: Drong (roll number 15699)
- Location:
- Drung, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Seán P. Mac Gabhann
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1117, Page 239
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- (continued from previous page)it would be the next morning. In the Lough itself there would be large pools sunk in the water as a place for the men to dump the oysters. When they had a trawler loaded they went to Derry with them, and put them on the scotch boat, and from there they proceeded to Glasgow.
Mussels were not so good a price as the oysters because they were very plentiful in the loughs, or inlets. In Lough Foyle, at the time the mussels were being dredged a few accidents occurred.
One of them was at Culmore where a man fell out of one of the boats and would have been drowned had he not caught hold of the shaft of a mussel rake. The mans name is Willie Smith of Drung aged 75 and he is still living.
Edward Toye,
Drung,
Quigley's Point,
Co. Donegal
28:7:1938
I got the above essay from Willie smith aged 75 of Drung.
- Collector
- Edward Toye
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Drung, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Willie Smith
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 75
- Address
- Drung, Co. Donegal
