School: Doirín an Lomáin (roll number 14235)
- Location:
- Doirín an Lomáin, Co. Chorcaí
- Teacher: Seán de Barra
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0293, Page 062
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- Peter O' Driscoll was drowned in Dunmanus Bay on a Sunday evening in July 1937. Himself and three other men were sailing from Akahista, and the rope that was tying the sail broke, and one of the men climbed the mast to repair it and he overbalanced the boat. The boat turned and the four men were thrown into the water. Peter Driscoll was thrown farther away than the rest. Three succeeded in hanging on to the boat until they were rescued by another boat. They were in an exhausted condition. Peter O' Driscoll's body was recovered two days afterwards nearly in the same place where he went down.
- Collector
- James Hellen
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ráth Dhreóin Bheag, Co. Chorcaí
- Informant
- Mr C. Helen
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ráth Dhreóin Bheag, Co. Chorcaí
- There were five men killed in the Dreenlomane barytes mine. There names are as follows Michael Hayes, Timothy Connolly, Richard O' Connell, John McCarthy, James Flynn. Three of these men were killed about thirty-five years ago. The other two were killed about 1915.
About the year 1917 another man named James White who worked in the mills in the Dreenlomane mine got his hand cut off from the wrist.(continues on next page)
