School: Log na nGall (roll number 15663)
- Location:
- Lugnagall, Co. Sligo
- Teachers: Tomás Ó Hodhráin Bean Uí Hodhráin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0157, Page 251
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- III Mountain Fire - Another Version
_____________ ________________The weather was fine for about two months and every thing was as dry as a bone. A fire started on Toose Mór on Friday, 29th April 1938, but no one knows how it started. It is thought that a man set fire to heather in order to prepare a bark for cutting turf, and that there was a good breeze of wind in it, and the flames and sparks were carried a long distance until a great many other places took fire.Four men went out to the mountain to try to extinguish the fire, but it was no use, because the fire had spread over a good part of the mountain.The fire has done a great deal of damage. It has burned the game for hunting, and wild birds and their young ones that were in the heather.A young lamb that went astray in the smoke was burned and it is likely that more would be burned only that the people drove home their sheep. it is a great loss to the farmers that used to have sheep on the mountain, because the grass is burned, and it will not come to growth for a couple of years.Turf was burned on [?] man by the fire(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Máire Dervis
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Lugnagall, Co. Sligo
