School: Colehill (B.), Mullingar (roll number 14672)
- Location:
- Colehill, Co. Longford
- Teacher: Peadar Ó Coigligh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0750, Page 116
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- Some years ago people were drowned in this district. On the 24th Jan. 1904 Mr. J.J. Masterson teacher in Colehill school was drowned in the Royal Canal.
He was coming from Abbeyshrule village at about ten o'clock on a dark night and he lost his way and walked into the canal and got drowned.
Ten years later on the 27th Jan. 1914 a woman named Bridget Clarke was coming from a neighbour's house on a dark night along the Canal when she slipped into it and got drowned.
This drowning happened about twenty yards from where the teacher was drowned.
A man named John Leavy was drowned(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Thomas Cogher
- Gender
- Male
