School: Drumbaniffe, Crusheen
- Location:
- Drumbonniv, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Máire Ní Lionnáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0593, Page 011
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- There were not many boats wrecked in the lakes of this locality and not many houses were burned.
In the year 1893, Michael Tierney, of Crusheen, which is about eight miles north of Ennis, was out fishing with a friend, named Lyons in Inchicronan Lake, which is about half a mile south of Crusheen.
He had a beautiful boat and while he was fishing, he caught a huge pike, which he succeeded in bringing in to the boat, but the fish jumped up about ten feet and jumped on the boat and over-turned it.
The two men were thrown into the water and would have been drowned, had they not been good swimmers.
The boat was lost for ever and it was never seen, as it sank in the deep water.
In the year 1913, there was a contest in a lake named the Leg of Mutton Lake(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Joseph Kelly
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Durra, Co. Clare
- Informant
- Mrs O' Connell
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Drumgloon, Co. Clare
