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School: Lubhghortán (Lowertown), Scoil Mhuire (roll number 4172)

Location:
Lowertown, Co. Cork
Teacher:
Máire, Bean Uí Mhathúna
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0289, Page 293

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    timber home with them. Daniel MacCarthy and Dick King from Ardravinna went for two carts of timber. They picked the best timber and when they had their carts loaded they set off for home. They had not gone far when they met two Coastguards. They took down their names and told them to take back the timber again.They turned round to go back and went back half ways but when the Coastguards were gone out of their sight they turned back and came home. It is also said that they gave the wrong names to the Coastguards. The people from Dunmanus got a lot of wine out of that ship and they afterwards sold it to the Shopkeepers and made a lot of money on it.
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    On Wednesday, the twenty first of August in the year nineteen hundred, another gale, the worst gale that ever came occurred. The day was a fine day, and all the people were reaping their corn. In the evening the sky got black
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    Language
    English
    Collector
    Annie Donovan
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Gunpoint, Co. Cork
    Informant
    Jeremiah Donovan
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    97
    Occupation
    Farmer
    Address
    Gunpoint, Co. Cork