School: Ceann Tuirc (B.) (roll number 14052)
- Location:
- Kanturk, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Liam Ó Caoimh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0353, Page 599
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You are not logged in, but you are welcome to contribute a transcription anonymously. In this case, your IP address will be stored in the interest of quality control.By clicking the save button you agree that your contribution will be available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License and that a link to dúchas.ie is sufficient as attribution. - On the fourteenth of August 1876, a boy of eighteen years named James McAuliffe and other boys went bathing in the river Dalua at a place called the Stick Hole. The Stick Hole is situated about half a mile from Kanturk, and is a very deep portion of the river, and only good swimmers would swim there. McAuliffe's friends dived in, and being good swimmers they were able to protect themselves, but James got excited when he dived in and he was not able to keep himself floating, and he was drowned. Everything was done to rescue him but all proved fruitless.
There was a fire in Kanturk forty three years ago. A local(continues on next page)
