School: Newtownmanor (roll number 4905)
- Location:
- Newtownmanor, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: P. Mac Néill (Nelson)
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Doon Lake is supposed by many to be very unlucky because many accidents occurred at it. A man named John Kelly was killed at this lake one time he was coming home from sligo with a load of timber and when he was passing Lough Doon his horse went into the water to get a drink. The mans foot got caught in the wheel of the cart and he shouted for help but nobody came to his assist. Once for a long time. A man from ‘Drumkeerin’ was passing by and he cut the rope that was the tying the timber and the timber fell down and killed him. When two men came to his assistance he was dead.
One night in the year nineteen hundred a man named John Boylan who lived in the townsland of Cornalaughta was coming from Sligo with a donkey and cart and at Lough Doon he fell from the cart and he was badly injured. He was carried to a house beside(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Nan Scanlon
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cornalaghta, Co. Leitrim
