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School: Kilmuckridge

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Kilmuckridge, Co. Wexford
Teacher:
L. Mac Donnell
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0887, Page 049

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  1. The Wreck of the Pomona

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    Narrator and Notes.

    Mr. John Carberry,
    Litterbeg,
    Kilmuckridge

    This happened in the year 1869. on the 11th of April.
    Stretching for upwards of 40 miles along the east coast of Co Wexford is the notorious Blackwater Bank, a long narrow sandbank mostly submerged, but which throws up a great white spray at low water. This Bank lies about 8 or 9 miles out from the shore and runs parallel to the Wexford. In to this hidden danger ran the Pomona where she was completely wrecked in the 11th April 1869. She was a very fine Ship fully rigged having 360 passengers mostly Irish emigrants on board
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    Language
    English
    Informant
    Mr John Carberry
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    70
    Address
    Litter Beg, Co. Wexford