School: Scattery Island
- Location:
- Scattery Island, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Nóra Ní Cholgáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0630, Page 071
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- (continued from previous page)communicating with the owners. They fared successfully, and after a few weeks the owners paid a personal visit to Kilbaha. It was then the pilots learned that the ship contained a valuable cargo of copper-ore, and the owners glad that nothing had happened to it, compensated the pilots heavily. With that money the (four) five pilots namely, Scanlan, Melican, McMahon, Griffin and Brennan, bought the greater part of Scattery Island from Marcus Keane, and Irish landlord living in Kilbaha.
- As soon as the pilots received the money reward, they went for advice to their P.P. and asked him to offer masses for them. The curate, on hearing(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Annie Melican
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Scattery Island, Co. Clare
- Informant
- Mrs Catherine Melican
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Scattery Island, Co. Clare
