School: Oileán Baoi (Dursey) (roll number 13138)
- Location:
- Oileán Baoi, Co. Chorcaí
- Teacher: Eoghan Ó Súilleabháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0274, Page 084
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- (continued from previous page)people could see the wreckage and the iron.The people in Baile na Carraige say that always in the start of a storm they hear the sailors working - weighing anchors and hoisting sails - in the place where these ships were lost in Béalaithe-Bó.
- At the bottom of the "scout" going up to the Dursey Island school [at the right hand side as you go up] there is an old cabhlach. A man named Tade Fionn [they used call him Tade Óg] lived there with his family. He had no land and all the children went away to America, except one girl. He died about twenty years ago. He had no land, only lived by fishing and he used get a few ridges from the neighbours to set potatoes in them.
One day Tade and a number of(continues on next page) - Collector
- Seán Ó hÚrdaill
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cill Mhichíl, Co. Chorcaí
