School: Tír na Móna (roll number 10441)
- Location:
- Tirnamona, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: E. Blackburn
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0954, Page 267
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- About a mile and a half from this school, in Drumaconnor in the parish of Tydavnet lived a gentleman called Reid. He gave a ball one night. There were two girls from Dublin at it as quests. Their names were Emily and Mary Wilde. They were related to Sir Oscar Wilde, a very famous man of Dublin. These two girls were very fond of each other, and always went together. One was twenty four years, and the other was twenty two years of age. This night they were dancing, and one of their frocks caught fire, and the other one ran to rescue her, and she caught fire too. The two of them were burned. There was not one there to help them, because it was at Christmas time, and the men had drink on them. These two girls died of their burns. Instead of being taken back to Dublin to be buried, they were buried in Drumsnatt. They were buried together in the one grave. There was a tomb stone put up, and on this stone was written, "They were(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Mc Clean
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 14
- Address
- Tullaghan, Co. Monaghan
- Informant
- Richard Mc Clean
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 61
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Tullaghan, Co. Monaghan
