School: Drumaweir (roll number 5228)
- Location:
- Drumaweer, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Aodh Ó Dómhnaill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1119, Page 66
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- My granny lives in Greencastle. SHe is 85 years of age. her name is Mrs Donnelly. I asked her did she know of any local happenings. She said she did. So this is what she told me She told me that she had a son in a schooner called the Scotchman. She ran from Derry to Maryport. On her last voyage in the year 1906 she sank. There were seven men on board this schooner. When she was coming to Derry with a load of coal she sank. it will be 31 years on the fifteenth of February. The names of the local people who were aboard her were, Hugh Donnelly, Pat McGonagle, Dan Begley, Captain Rockford and John Steel. My granny does not know the names of the others. The schooner went with the wind. She had no engine. This boat was built in the year 1899 and she was built in Belfast. Neither the Scotchman nor the bodies were ever found. So that was the end of the Scotchman. My uncle joined the Scotchman in the year 1803. It is said that Pat McGonagle's body was found at a place called Inishturk, an island off the coast of Galway.
- Collector
- Shemus Mc Laughlin
- Gender
- Male
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- Mrs Donnelly
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- Grandparent
- Gender
- Female
