School: Inis Mac ón Tír (roll number 12854)
- Location:
- Inis Mhic an Trír, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Muireann Bean Uí Chuinneagáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0065, Page 128
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- In years gone by there was a regatta held each year in Oughterard Bay, but for the past forty years there was no regatta held there.The chief event in the regatta was a sailing boat race. People came from all over Ireland to compete at the regatta. The last regatta held there, had a very sad ending. There were five boats out in the race, namely "Little Fairy," "(Blue Devil,)" "Clear the way", "Over the waves" and "Harky way".The Inchiquin boat "Blue Devil" was coming in first in the race, when, suddenly a squall came and capsized the boat. The three men were thrown into the water. Their names were James Monaghan Pat McNulty and James Walsh.James Monaghan was drowned but Walsh and McNulty swam to Inishshambo fully clothed. Some time afterwards Monaghan's body was found washed ashore to his own land in Inchiquin.About fifteen years after, Pat McNulty was drowned on Lough Corrib.
This story was told to me by my father, Peter Egan of Castletown.Mary Egan.
- Collector
- Mary Egan
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Peter Egan
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Castletown, Co. Mayo
