School: An Pasáiste Thoir (B.), Port Láirge
- Location:
- Passage East, Co. Waterford
- Teacher: Proinnsias Ó Heachthigheirn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0652, Page 189
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- (continued from previous page)into all the people of Passage and Wexford. From that day to this no one ever goes to fish on St. Martin's Day. There is a poem dedicated to the memory of the lost men: -
There is an old tradition
Held with some in Wexford town
That says upon St. Martin's Eve
No net shall be let down.
No fishermen of Wexford
Shall upon that holy day
Set sail or cast a line
Within the scope of Wexford BayII
The crew that held the offing
The time no one can tell
No one ever questioned
But the people kept it well
And never in man's memory
Was fisher known to leave
The little town of Wexford
On the good St. Martin's Eve.
- Collector
- Thomas Ryan
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- James Mason
- Relation
- Unknown
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 65
- Address
- Passage East, Co. Waterford
