School: Cuan an Bhainigh (Bannow)
- Location:
- Carrick, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Tomás Breatnach
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0876, Page 013
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- (continued from previous page)Nearly all the cargo was saved by the people of Bannow and they were all well paid for doing so.
The captain and his crew who were Spanish stayed in a house which was owned by Mr Cullen.
There was another ship which was wrecked close to the same spot. This ship was wrecked on a rock which is now called Randale Rock.
It was loaded with a cargo of Randale tobacco and consequently the rock is known by the name of the Randale Rock.
From Mrs Sinnott, Brandane - aged eighty one years.
- My home district is the Townland of Bannow in the Parish of Bannow in the Barony of Bargy in the County Wexford. There are seventeen families in the townland and about ninety people living in it and the most common name is Harper, other names being Walsh, Keane, Crosby.(continues on next page)
