Rescuers begin to pull cow from Boho cave
THE DRAMATIC rescue of 450kg bullock from a cave in the townland of Aghamore in Boho was carried out by a team of cave rescuers last week.
After the animal, owned by a local farmer lost its way and fell down the hole, about eight metres deep, a team of rescuers were called to bring it to safety.
Around 20 locals watched as the team, including Florencecourt man Eoghan Lynch, assembled a device to pull the Charolais bullock from the hole.
Eoghan explained: “We had to put lifting slings on it and attach them onto a rope and we got the pull from a teleporter in the field.”
He added: “It took us about an hour and half by the time we got there – there must have been about 20 people around the top of the pot. They were very appreciative of it. The main reason we got involved was that the farmer was going to try sort it out but we would have been down that hole before, and we knew the hole and knew we could get it out.”
Eoghan described the rescue as ‘quite irregular’ but something that happens ‘every couple of years’.
Eoghan added that the farmer who owned the bullock was ‘most grateful that it wasn’t let there to die’.
Local publican, Dessie McKenzie, of the Linnet Inn, Boho, said that the bullock had been sheltering in some trees from the stormy weather conditions last weekend when he became detached and lost from the rest of his herd.
“On Monday morning his owner managed to trace his whereabouts when it responded to calls. Remarkably the animal returned to land relatively unscathed and since the event, a further safety fence has been erected near the spot where it fell in to prevent a repeat incident,” Dessie explained.
“It was definitely the talk of Boho and the surrounding area last week.”
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