School: Páirc Uí Líathain, Killenaule
- Location:
- Lanespark, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Pilib Mac an Fhailghe
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0564, Page 236
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In August 1937, a young man named Patrick Ivers lost his life in the old coal-mine workings, Earlshill, Slieveardagh, Co Tipperary. Along with a companion he was raising "bassets", when the roof of the mine came down. A "basset" is a pillar of coal left standing by the old miner as a roof-support in the seam. Both men received warning of the roof collapse and made for the shaft. The companion escaped to safety but Ivers was entrapped some few feet from the bottom of the shaft. His body was not recovered until a new shaft had been sunk, as the old shaft had filled in by the subsidence of the roof. Relays of men, skilled miners, worked night and day pumping and boring in the hope of reaching him alive, but in vain. The rescue party worked for almost a week before they succeeded in recovering the body and Thurles Urban Council lent its fire-engine in charge of Mr. George Mason(continues on next page)
