School: Oylegate (roll number 5918)

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2. A Local Accident

   

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   Once there lived a man for 20 years in Edermine named Jack Stamp. He had made a rick and he went in and ate a big dinner. He was so hot that he went down to the Slaney to bathe.
   He swam across to the far side and when he was swimming back again he got a cramp and got drowned

   

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3. A Drowning Accident

   

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   There was a boy called Luke Hendrick aged 17 years who lived at Scurlocksbush and went out fishing for eels on the evening of July 19th 1916 in the Slaney near Edermine. In order to set his lines he took off his clothes and rolled them up in a neat bundle in a bunch of reeds close by. Then he waded into the water which was about 10 feet deep. He got fast in some weeds near the edge of the Channel and two days later his body was found at the Slaney by his father and he is interred

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   Topics

   1. events
      1. hardship (~1,565)
         1. drowning (~292)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Denis Maher

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Ballyvake, Co. Wexford

   Informant

   Mr Denis Maher

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Ballyvake, Co. Wexford