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School: Naomh Bríghid, Blackwater (roll number 7036)

Location:
Blackwater, Co. Wexford
Teacher:
Diarmuid Ó Súilleabháin
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    washed ashore with the morning all except a young boy named John OConnor who went out with the fishermen for diversion.
    The survivors were landed at Ballycotton Co. Cork and after having given up as long since dead, word came from Wexford town that they had arrived there. Incidentally they walked the journey from Ballycotton. The whole district turned out to welcome them.
    Then there was the inevitable 'ballad'. I could only get two verses and here they are:
    (1) To the Church they bore them
    Beneath the Black Pall
    But young John OConnor
    Was ne'er got at all
    (2) James and Mog Downey
    I grieve to drown them
    And Thomas Bolger I ne'er pass by
    Mick Brien I mourn with the two Byrnes
    That left their friends to lament and cry
    These surnames are common in this locality yet.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. events
      1. hardship (~1,565)
        1. shipwrecks (~384)
    Language
    English
    Informant
    Mrs O' Byrne
    Gender
    Female