School: Gort na Mara (Seafield) (roll number 11565)
- Location:
- Donaghintraine, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Bean Uí Ghathaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0168, Page 117
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- (continued from previous page)man named McMorris. He was a nailer and made iron nails.
- When I was 17 years old in 1897 I fished a boat with 6 of a crew John Scanlon, Willie Harkin, Michael Keenan, Cat Collcarig, John Dowd and an old skipper James Mullarkey. We had a boat 24 feet long and 10 feet wide with 4 oars and a long net 600 fathoms long and 14 fathoms deep. In every 5 fathoms were had a stone sunk and covered with a piece of a bag and tied on to the bottom rope. In every yard on top of rope was a cork. We left Kileswairneack shore and pulled the boat about one mile to the drafting ground at Carrickcadew. The old skipper dropped a 4 claw anchor and shot his net in a circle, left 400 yards of a mouth, dropped another anchor and made the boat fast(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Teresa Tiernan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Dromore West, Co. Sligo
- Informant
- John Dowd
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Dromore West, Co. Sligo
