School: St Boden's, Culdaff
- Location:
- Culdaff, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Doiminic Ó Duibhne
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1123, Page 104
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- Bucker's RockAt the east of the "White Strand" on Culdaff shore lies this rock known as "Bucker's Rock" or "Clark's Rock"On the eastern side of this rock two men Brian Crumlish and George Platt, who were working at meadow hay with Mr Younge the local landlord, were drowned while bathing on 29th August 1821. At the very same spot Father Clarke of St Mary's Catholic Church, Bocan, Culdaff was drowned while bathing in the year 1849.
- Moll's RockAbout two hundred yards east of Bucker's Rock lies "Moll's Rock" where long ago "say about the year 1844" an old lady called "Moll _____ " was carried by a "tarrable wave" when picking "bearnachs" on this rock.These two rocks - Bucker's Rock and Moll's Rock - enclose the only dangerous part for bathers at Culdaff Shore.
- Collector
- Doiminic Ó Duibhne
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Múinteoir
- Informant
- Mr Johnnie Knox
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- Over 70
- Occupations
- Farmer
- Fisherman
- Address
- Carthage, Co. Donegal
- The Policeman's CoveAlmost a mile east of Bucker's Rock, just beyond the "Glebe Strand" is Dunmore hill.(continues on next page)
