School: Rennies, Cionn tSáile (roll number 4443)
- Location:
- Ballynalougha, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Liam Ó Hailín
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0321, Page 015
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Rennies, Cionn tSáile
- XML Page 015
- XML “Shipwrecks”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- (continued from previous page)No sooner had they it up than it was blown down into ribbons. The fog was very heavy all that time and then it was clearing. Then they did not know where they were. The steamer was all the time drifting near the rocks. The sea was passing over the vessel. The Captain told them to go on deck. When the vessel struck the rock two men jumped on the rock and there was not space enough for the two to stand they fell into the water and got drowned. The vessel struck the rock again Another man jumped on the rock and saved himself. He got a rope and threw it to the others and they managed to land on the rock one at a time
