School: Colthurst, Ráth Cúil
- Location:
- Rathcool, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Seán Ó Murchadha
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- The Blackwater river is a very treacherous river because the fords move and where it is shallow to-day there may be a deep pool to-morrow.
Once a boy went swimming in the Blackwater behind Keale Bridge and the year before where the boy was swimming the river was very shallow. That year this was a pool about twenty feet deep and the boy was drowned. After many attempts by the Crowley and Doodey brothers the boy's body was brought to the top of the water.
