School: Dún Ceann Fhaolaidh (roll number 15499)
- Location:
- Dunkineely, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Seaghan Mac Cuinneagáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1038, Page 256
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- (continued from previous page)the skipper of the boat was the name of Boyd and he told a servant boy that was hired with him that the first time they hauled the nets they got a yawl of herring and the crew wanted to shoot the nets again and he said it would be better to go ashore because he did not like the carry was on the moon and he said he said he was very afraid that there was going to be a storm and he said that when he said those words that there was not so much as a ripple on the water so this crew came ashore and they were the only crew from this place who were out that night and this old man said there were only eighty-five drowned together. This man’s son was going along the beach the next day and the first thing he saw was a heap of corpses and nets and the boats washed up on the beach. This boy spread the news and many lamentations were heard in Bruckless this day, every mother and father if they were living coming to get their own people’s bodies out of the(continues on next page)
