School: Dalkey (Loreto Convent)
- Location:
- Dalkey, Co. Dublin
- Teacher: Mother Evangeline
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- One very stormy night, when a gale was threatening an old ship came sailing along the water. It was coming to Coliemore Harbour which was then the main port of Dublin. The name of the boat was Loch Fergus. On it was a cargo of bricks or cement. As it passed Shanganagh the gale arose. One wise man said, "Why not blow up we might escape(.") So they blew up the boat but in blowing up the boat he blew of(f) his own son's head. So the ship was wrecked off Shanganagh River, this was about eighty years. Anoth(er) old scotish tug boat by the name of "The Flying Hawk was(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Margaret Nicholson
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- White's Villas, Co. Dublin
- Informant
- Jimmy Hammond
- Relation
- Unknown
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 60
- Address
- Dalkey, Co. Dublin