Scoil: Easgéiphtine (C.) (uimhir rolla 2040)

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1. Local Happenings (ar lean)

   

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   endeavoured to reach the land. The occupants of their boats, the Corbetts and Nasher, tried to persuade the occupants of the other boat to do likewise and apparently they did try to do so but it was then too late. The full nets dragged the boat and capsized it on the angry water. Both men, Mr. John O'Sullivan and Mr. Sheahan were drowned. The others succeeded in coming ashore some miles from Askeaton and after their terrible ordeal they had to walk home to tell the sad news. Some months later a man training a horse on the sandy shore near Foynes found O'Sullivan's body. The horse shied at the object and the man, on investigation, discovered that it was the body. The other body was never found but the man had a cork leg which people say stuck in the mud and pinned the body there. Herrings are never now caught near Askeaton nor were they caught there since that tragic episode.

   

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2. Local Happenings

   

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   In March 1912 the River Deel was very much swollen from recent rains and what was usually a quiet river was then a raging flood. There was a meet of the County Limerick Foxhounds and during the chase the fox crossed the river. The whip urged his mount into the water, but she, being a mare, turned

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   Topaicí

   1. ócáidí
      1. cruatan (~1,565)

   Teanga

   Béarla

   Bailitheoir

   Brigid O' Donnell

   Inscne

   Baineann

   Seoladh

   Baile na Cathrach, Co. Luimnigh

   Faisnéiseoir

   William O' Donnell

   Inscne

   Fireann

   Aois

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