School: Lathaigh (Laghey)
- Location:
- Laghy, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Proinsias Mac Pháidín
![The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1032, Page 081](https://doras.gaois.ie/cbes/CBES_1032%2FCBES_1032_081.jpg?width=1600&quality=85)
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1032, Page 081
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Lathaigh (Laghey)
- XML Page 081
- XML “A Sad Drowning”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- About sixty five years ago my grandfather was at the Bach- strands for a cart of sand.
He saw a man running a fast as he could down the banks. It was Tom Shannon. He looked the second time and he saw George Hendary following him and George was shouting and roaring and he declared when he would get Tom Shannon he would split his skull with the stick he had in his hand.
Tom was after trapping a few rabbits on his ground. George Hendary was a very bad tempered man he wanted to take revenge.
Tom Shannon had his boat anchored far out on the sea and he ran with the intention of pumping into the boat but he jumped.(continues on next page)- Collector
- Monica Connolly
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Mullanasole, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Hugh Connolly
- Relation
- Unknown
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Mullanasole, Co. Donegal