School: Scattery Island
- Location:
- Scattery Island, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Nóra Ní Cholgáin
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- (continued from previous page)day, and the doctor after holding a post mortem, stated that she was dead before ever she reached the water. Her husband's and son's bodies were found about three weeks later.
- Story.
Jack Melican, who with his uncle brought the news of his father's death to Scattery, grew to be a strong honest hard working man. He married in his father's land and had four children. One day Mrs. Moran asked him to go with her daughter, May, to Kilrush for a car of turf. He consented willingly, and with a light heart rowed out in Moran's two men canoe.
They bought the turf and at 4 o'clock that evening, returned home. There was a coal boat at Kilrush pier the same day, and as the(continues on next page) - Collector
- Nóra Ní Cholgáin
- Gender
- Female
- Occupation
- Múinteoir
- Informant
- Cáit Bean Uí Mhaolacháin
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Scattery Island, Co. Clare
