School: Dún Ceann Fhaolaidh (roll number 15499)
- Location:
- Dunkineely, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Seaghan Mac Cuinneagáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1038, Page 262
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- There was another drowning in Bruckless Bay not very long ago. It was on a Sunday, the first Sunday in September 1935. There were three boys going out to the light-house at Killybegs. This lighthouse is situated on an island not far from the coast, and the three boys were going out to it, on the Sunday evening on a boat to turn on the lights in the lighthouse but they never reached their destiny. One of the boys climbed up the mast and with the eight of him the board overturned. Two of the boys were drowned and one saved.
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Also his son Patrick, a lad much loved by all
His equal you would not find in all of Donegal
And James and Patrick Donegan,
Two brothers kind and true
That day they went a-fishing.
Their poor people sadly rue.
A loving wife and children, mourn John Gallagher’s sad end.
O, may the Saviour pity them, and be to them a friend
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