School: Naomh Multose, Ceann tSáile (roll number 14726)
- Location:
- Kinsale, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Mrs. Sweetnam
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0320, Page 181
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- Kinsale and its harbour is on the whole a rather sheltered port, but from time to time its shores have been battered by severe storms.
On January 1937 fell probably one of Kinsales heaviest snow storms. In a night, everything was completely covered with snow and in the morning everything was white.
The following are the accounts of some of the ship-wrecks on Kinsale's shores, as told by my uncle - on July 1st 1892 a mail boat "The City of Chicago", when home-ward bound got caught in a heavy storm and fog, and ran ashore off the Westward part of the "Old Head of Kinsale" She got jammed between two pinnacles of rock, which broke her in halves
Passengers and crew all got saved by climbing the cliffs. Next day her general cargo was floating around the ocean. All the small boats of Kinsale picked up the greater part of it (provisions, boxes etc) and brought them into the town. Shortly afterwards, the salvage boats arrived and took off any valuables on her and put them in a stores on the Pier Head for the time being.
Again, a small Weekly Boat ran ashore during another storm at "Hole Open" on the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- John Robert Arnopp
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Kinsale, Co. Cork
- Informant
- George Arnopp
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 60
- Occupation
- Fisherman
- Address
- Kinsale, Co. Cork
