School: Druim Muc (roll number 12861)
- Location:
- Corderrybane, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: M. Ní Chuinneagáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0937, Page 072
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- (continued from previous page)it they gave three cheers for joy, but little was their notion they would never return again.
They were scarcely a mile from land, when their cries were heard quite clearly, the boat began to leak, which filled them all with fear. They were filled with terror, and they cried for help, as they were heard for miles around, but before (that) they could get help, to the bottom they went down.
Here is a verse of the song which was composed on them:
It would take a tear from
the hardest heart,
That ever beat in man,
To see those children's parents,
That evening on the strand.
Their fathers they were frantic,
Their mothers' screaming wild,
Saying "God above where is my love
My only darling child."(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Eibhlin Ní Dhiarmada
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Clare Oghill, Co. Monaghan
- Informant
- Mr J. Mc Dermott
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 62
- Address
- Mullybrack, Co. Cavan
