School: Naomh Bríghid, Blackwater (roll number 7036)
- Location:
- Blackwater, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Diarmuid Ó Súilleabháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0886, Page 009
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- (1) Martin Tobin
(2) Ballyconigar Upper
(3) 68 years (4) Farm Labourer
(5) In Ballyconigar
(6) Simon Keating
(7) Forty Years ago
(8) About 70 years
(9) Ballinaclash Blackwater
(10)The wreck of the "Pomona'(11.4.1859)
The sea off the east Wexford coast for a distance of some six to nine miles is shallow with sand banks barley submerged. Then as a boundary to this shallow sea then is the notorious Blackwater banks a ridge of submerged sand bank extending from Arklow to the Tuskar more or less parallel to the Wexford eastern coast at about nine miles distant.
On this bank the 'Pomona' was wreaked on the 11th April 1859
she was a full rigged ship 365 passengers mostly Irish emigrants and 32 of a crew.
She was bound from Liverpool to New York. She was in command of Command Captain Merriw with John and Henry Blair quartermasters. Six of the crew(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Martin Tobin
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 68
- Occupation
- Farm-labourer
- Address
- Ballyconnigar Upper, Co. Wexford
