School: Clews' Memorial (roll number 15465)
- Location:
- Boyle, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Máire Ní Néill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0234, Page 083
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“In the time of the landlords there was a woman who lived with her son in a farm of land near Boyle.”
(continued from previous page)the police went away, trembling with fear, and at the loss of their five-pound note.
- The Drowning at Drumdoe
Come all ye tender Christians, attention to me pay,
I hope you will condole with me, till I relate the tale.
It being of a worldly youth, his age was scarce nineteen
He little expected his dismal fate, where bathing he had been.
It being on the tenth day of July in the year of 74,
This fatal accident occurred, upon the Lough Arrow shore.
James Judge he was a widow's son and he dwelt near Corrigroe
He laboured for his landlord James Flannigan of Dundoh.
The weather it being sultry, when his days work was done
It was on the mergin of the Lake he said he would have a swim.(continues on next page) - Collector
- Mary Anne Carty
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Sheegorey, Co. Roscommon
