School: Poulfur
- Location:
- Grange, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Niadh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0870, Page 266
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- The Grecian lightIn the year 1848 a Grecian ship was wrecked on the bar of Bannow, and most of the crew were lost. She was loaded with yellow corn. The rest of the crew went ashore to Bannow on timber. There is a bright light seen on the bar of Bannow, usually before a storm. The lights are not seen as much those later years as they used. It starts on the Horse-Thread and it runs along the bar as far as the coast guards stations on the point of Bannow. The Horse-Thread is a heap of stones at the back of the big Borrow.The above was told me by my uncle Micheal Ryan, Newtown, Fethard on sea. Willie Ryan, Newtown Fethard on sea.
- Collector
- Willie Ryan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Fethard, Co. Wexford
