School: Kilmurry
- Location:
- Kilmurry, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: A. de Búrca
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0803, Page 140
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- about two years ago a man by the name of James Guilfoyle, Clonmore, Tullamore was coming home from Tullamore. The night was very dark and foggy. He went into a neighbours house on his way home and he got tea. They wanted to give him a lamp but he refused it. He had to walk a quarter of a mile along the canal bank until he came to a lock and then he could walk across on the foot-board of the lock and get to the side of his own house. The guards and neighbours were searching for the body almost a week before it was found. Christopher Todd, Kilmurry, Daingean pulled up the body from the bottom of the canal with a drag. There was an inquest held on the body before it was buried.
About twenty years ago there was an epidemic of influenza and a large number of people died all over the country. In a place called Ballycallaghan where my uncle now lives a whole family named Quinn died in a few days father, mother, son and daughter. They were buried in Durrow cemetery where there is a calvary erected in their memory.
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