School: St Columba's, Buncrana
- Location:
- Buncrana, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Eoghan Ua Gallchobhair
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1111, Page 142
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- There used to be six fishing boats which employed eighteen men. There was one of them belonged to Bernard Lynch; there was another belonged to Corney Moran; there was another belonged to Sam Logan; there was another of these belonged to Pat Boner; there was another one owned by Sam Steen; there was another one belonged to Eddie Kelly. They all fished in Lough Swilly; they sold some of their fish locally and they sent the rest to Belfast and Dublin. There boats all went by sail and now they are all broken up and burned. There were two more boats one owned by a man named Brian Toner and another belonged to a man called James Kelly and they took sand from Buncrana to Letterkenny and sold it for building purposes. They would come about twenty other boats every summer and take bog for purifying gas and going through iron and some of the other boats would take away cargoes of turf and they were in the distilleries for giving the whisky a peaty flavour.
- Collector
- Michael Lynch
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Patrick Mc Laughing
- Gender
- Male
