School: Kilmuckridge
- Location:
- Kilmuckridge, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: L. Mac Donnell
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- Narrator Mr John Carberry aged 70 years. Litterbeg, Kilmuckridge
Wreck of the Lydia or Liddy 1860
This was a merchant man of one 5000 Tons. She had left Liverpool and had came down channel as far as Ballinamona on her way to Montevideo. when she ran ashore. Ballinamona is about 2 miles to the South of Kilmuckridge, and the coast there is very smooth / with steep marly cliffs on the shore side.
Outside about 8 or 9 miles runs the treacherous Blackwater Bank the grave of many a merchant Sailor in the old days.
She carried a general(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Mr John Carberry
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 70
- Address
- Litter Beg, Co. Wexford
