School: Carraig na Heorna (roll number 10938)
- Location:
- Carricknahorna, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Susan Mary Irwin
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“Theatrical performances were frequently given in Ballyshannon and Lady Morgan then a young girl accompanied by her father...”
(continued from previous page)Henceforth the field was known as Mc. Governs Meadow. The body was buried with military honours in Mullaghnashee . His brother officers had a tombstone erected.- Returned to his native earth, lieth all that was mortal of Lieut. Taaffee Mc. Govern late of Northumberland Regiment of Fencible Infantry He fell in a duel on the 2nd March 1802, in the 23rd year of his age.
- Collector
- Susan Mary Irwin
- Gender
- Female
- In the summer of 1832 cholera broke out in Ballyshannon and neighbourhood. It first appeared in Bundoran and it was supposed the disease was carried there by a smack from Liverpool which called to take in salmon. The mortality in Ballyshannon was small compared with many neighbouring towns, but the panic caused gave a serious check to trade Deaths in Ballyshannon 93 recoveries 152. A building at the Red Barn was used for patients.