School: Cobh Labhráis (C.) (roll number 7453)
- Location:
- Rerrin, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Áine, Bean Uí Shúilleabháin
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- (continued from previous page)boat and placing these men on board he began to lower away but the boat was smashed against the ship's side by a heavy sea and both men were drowned. Soon they were driven on the rocks where they remained until daylight. Two men arrived and at once descended the cliff to render help and save the lives of the men still clinging to the rigging of the ship.These men whose names were Michael Shanahan and Denis Harrington were brave and fearless men and descended this precipice which was about 300 feet high at a great risk and by their direction the crew got a rope ashore to the end of which they tied a barrel which carried the rope to where the rescuers stood. They then secured the end to a large stone the other end on board was taken to the winch and hove tight, and by means of both rescuers got on board the ship and by the same means the crew were taken ashore and hauled up the cliff and taken to the homes of Shanahan and Harrington and cared for until the report of the wreck reached the owners and provision made to carry the seamen home.
The ship now a total wreck her(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Julia Harrington
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mr John Harrington
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- c. 50
- Address
- Greenane, Co. Cork
