School: Gort Uí Chluana, Beanntraí

Location:
Gortacloona, Co. Cork
Teacher:
Seán 7 Tadhg Ó Súilleabháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0285, Page 014

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0285, Page 014

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  1. The following is a quaint inscription on an old headstone in the Bantry Abbey burial ground. The stone is a large slab of slate but seems to have been broken by the fall of a neighbouring tree. It is supposed to mark the grave of an unknown sailor who died in Bantry Bay on a ship. No name or date seems to have been on the stone, and few could now decipher the verse owing to the growth of lichens.
    "Tho' Boreas' winds and Neptune's blasts
    Have passed me to and fro.
    In spite of both by God's decree
    I'm harboured here below.
    Where I do now at anchor ride
    With many of our fleet
    Awaiting to set sail again
    Our Admiral Christ to meet."
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. objects
      1. man-made structures
        1. historical and commemorative structures (~6,794)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mary Lynch
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Cappanaloha East, Co. Cork
    Informant
    J. O Sullivan
    Address
    Gortacloona, Co. Cork