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 070
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- (continued from previous page)were asleep. He went to bed and in the morning he was found dead by his friends.
In the year 1839 there came a very big wind and there was a ship wrecked on the "Blackwater Bank". All the crew were lost. Six of the men came ashore near Ballyvaloo and were buried in Ballyvaloo graveyard. There is an old stone the shape of a sailor over their grave. It is now broken and covered with moss. This stone was found on the strand soon after the storm.
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