School: Pitfield, Inis (roll number 11091)
- Location:
- Cloondrinagh, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Tomás Ó Maonaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0606, Page 129
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- About ninety years ago when the famine was raging in Ireland, thousands of the starving people used emigrate to America to earn their living.
This ship which I am going to tell about was one of those which used carry them off from Ireland.It was called the Ship Edmund. It sailed from Galway and when it reached the coast of Clare a westerly wind began to blow violently.
The ship was blown into Kilkee Bay in among the rocks and was completely wrecked.There were about one hundred and thirty on board and of those ninety eight were drowned. When the ship hit the rocks some of the passengers succeeded in reaching the rocks. They were dragged down again by others who came in after them and were drowned.
The ship was a sailing ship with no lifeboats or anything else to save life.
Among those who were saved was a man named James Griffin who lived in(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Susan Browne
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cappanageeragh, Co. Clare
- Informant
- Thomas Browne
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 57
- Address
- Cappanageeragh, Co. Clare
