School: Cruit Island (roll number 16069)
- Location:
- An Chruit, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Domhnaill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1058, Page 16
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- Tráigh Silesia is situated in lower Kedue in the lower Rosses.
One winter's morning the sun shone brightly and clearly.
In the evening dark clouds began to come over the sky.
The old people know that a storm was going to come.
It was in the year 1856. The next morning was very bright and clear.
The people had a big sight to see. A large ship was up on the strand.
She had a cargo of timber. It was at the time that they were making the Kincasslagh Chapel.
They had no timber to roof the chapel.
The people that got the timber sold it and they roofed the chapel with it.
Silesia was the name of the shim and that's how Tráigh Silesia got its name.
- Collector
- Nuala Nic Abhaird
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Sighle Nic an Abhaird
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- An Chruit, Co. Donegal
