School: Inch Island

Location:
Carrickanee, Co. Donegal
Teacher:
Pádraig S. Mac Fhinn
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  1. Boat Wreck.
    In the year 1894 a man named Thomas McLaughlin and his son was employed boating up sand to build the Cathedral in Letter-kenny. It was a calm evening when he left Rathmullan with a cargo of sand but he had his boat over loaded.My great uncle Patrick Green was standing watching the boat from Benalt. When he was passing Drum-boe point a heavy storm arose. He fought with the storm two hours and at the end his boat went down and the both was drowned. The son was got a week later but the father was never got.
    Pupil. Hugh McGinley
    Told by David McGinley
    Castle Quarter, Inch.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. time
      1. historical periods by name (~25)
        1. the great famine (~4,013)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Hugh Mc Ginley
    Gender
    Male
    Informant
    David Mc Ginley
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Castlequarter, Co. Donegal