School: Easgéiphtine (C.) (roll number 2040)

Location:
Eas Géitine, Co. Luimnigh
Teacher:
Áine, Bean Mhic Eoin
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    on her side to swim across. The whip was drowned and his body was later recovered by a police-man from Rathkeale.
    A man named Neville and his wife and her sister were living near Akseaton. One morning the sister was going out for a bucket of coal when she noticed the window of the bedroom open. On going in she discovered that her brother-in-law was not there and his wife knew nothing of his whereabouts. The man had been suffering from some depression and therefore a search was instituted. He was found drowned in a well but apparently there was nothing to show how he came to be there.
    A man, who lived beside our house, got drink one day and he laid down on the railway track. The driver of the train failed to see him and he was killed.
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    Topics
    1. ócáidí
      1. cruatan (~1,565)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Peg Keith Murphy
    Gender
    Female