School: St Patrick's, Aughnacliffe (roll number 13283)
- Location:
- Aghnacliff, Co. Longford
- Teacher: Máirtín Ó Dubhda
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0761, Page 164
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“The summer of 1898 as related by those who remember it...”
Told to me by Matt Donohe aged 55yrs.The Summer of 1898 as related by those who remember it was the dryest and warmest within living memory. All the spring wells around Aughakine, Sonnagh, Kilray and Aughnacliffe went dry and as there was no Co-operative Dairy or Creamery then. The farmers used to churn their milk, and during that season the afore mentioned Town Lands had to get their supply of spring water for butter-making from a well on the West boundary of Aughakine name "Garrowlucas". The year in question is also a memorable one in Aughakine as a man named Kavanagh was drowned at a place called the bushy Island in Lough Gowna. The night before this sad occurence this young man was forewarned in the following manner. Returning home off his céilíde he thought the ground was covered over with snow and that he was kicking it of the buachallaíns in the fields and on the same night his father was coming off his céilídhe. On his way home as he drew near his own(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Seamus Mc Nerney
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 14
- Informant
- Matt Donohoe
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 55