School: Doire Ó gCuanaigh (roll number 8991)

Location:
Derrygoony, Co. Monaghan
Teacher:
L. Mac Áinlighe
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0940, Page 188

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0940, Page 188

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  2. You feeling hearted Christmas of every degree. I claim your kind attention to sympathize with me. Until I relate the unhappy faith which lately has befell
    Seventeen souls upon Lough Sillon most heart rending to tell.
    II
    On the twenty fifth of July all in the present year.
    From the parish school of Cullies as plainly doth the pair, the master and his scholars, the mainitress wife went on a boat upon Lough Sillon where they
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