School: St. Michael's Clooncunny (roll number 14589)
- Location:
- Clooncunny, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Úna, Bean Uí Stondúin
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0188, Page 167
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
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
- Two boys named Hayden from Mahannagh were drowned some 30 years ago on Lower Lough Gara. They went out sliding on the ice. There was a spring and they could not stop themselves and were sucked back under the ice.A little boy named Gaffney was drowned some 11 years ago. He went to play in a boat and was rocking it and the boat drifted out. He must have got frightened and jumped out for the boat was found floating safely but the poor little lad was found drowned on the shore some miles away.A woman called Flannery who was "off her head" drowned herself in the lake at Shoof.Another lunatic by the name of Casey threw herself under the train and was killed
