School: The Rower (B.), Inistioge (roll number 15160)
- Location:
- The Rower, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Risteárd Ó Cuirrín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0847, Page 054
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- In the year 1928, a ship by the name of "The Treasnas", sunk on the river Barrow, opposite the townland, Charlefield, near Ferrymountgarret Bridge. The ship was heavily loaded with timber. No one was drowned. The wreck has not since been removed from the river.
- Collector
- Martin Ryan
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- James O' Keeffe
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 28
- Address
- Coolhill, Co. Kilkenny
- About nineteen years ago a very bad 'flu swept over the countryside. People were dying out of every townland. Many died in the Rower Parish.
- Collector
- Martin Ryan
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- James O' Keeffe
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 28
- Address
- Coolhill, Co. Kilkenny
- In the famine years many people were working for the Public Works in the Rower. It is said that two men died from hunger, in the townland, Kilconly. During the same years dead bodies were as plenty as fishes in the river Barrow, and numbers of people left The Rower for America and Canada. Many of them are in very responsible and high positions in America to-day.Written byMartin RyanTold by
James O'Keeffe (age 28)
Coolhill
The Rower. - Collector
- Martin Ryan
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- James O' Keeffe
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 28
- Address
- Coolhill, Co. Kilkenny
