School: Rinn Tuirc (roll number 9835)

Location:
Reenturk, Co. Kerry
Teacher:
S. Bean Uí Rinn
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  1. A very sad drowning fatality happened in this locality about the year 1893. A crowd of people numbering seventeen between boys and girls left Saleen in a small boat for a days pleasure. They visited Scattery Island and then into Kilrush and after enjoying themselves they left late in the evening for their homeward voyage. But alas they never reached home and what was still worse no body left to tell what happened as the whole seventeen were drowned. There were several surmises as to what happened but it is generally thought that there was too big a crowd in the boat as the boat only measured seventeen feet and then the men or boys may have drink taken coming home.
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      1. hardship (~1,565)
        1. drowning (~292)
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