School: The Rower (B.), Inistioge (roll number 15160)

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1. Local Happenings - Shipwrecks

   

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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.

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   Topics

   1. events
      1. hardship (~1,565)
         1. shipwrecks (~384)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Martin Ryan

   Gender

   Male

   Informant

   James O' Keeffe

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   28

   Address

   Coolhill, Co. Kilkenny

2. Local Happenings - Epidemic

   

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   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.

   

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3. Local Happenings - Famine

   

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   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 by

   Martin Ryan

   Told by
   James O'Keeffe (age 28)
   Coolhill
   The Rower.

   

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