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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0142, Page 299

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  1. The Lacken Disaster

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    On the sultry evening of October 29th 1927 eight herring fishing boats were taken out to the fishing ground.
    The priest of the parish, Father Quinn, who had heard on his wireless that a gale was approaching hastened down to the shore to warn the fishers but was too late as they had already left.
    Shortly afterwards the storm arose. The fishers taken unawares hastened to make for the shore. The waves running towards the shore brought them in quickly- too quickly in fact for the force of the waves dashed the boats on teh rocky coast of Lackan.
    One of the boats never reached the shore and neither it nor its nine occupants were never seen
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. time
      1. historical periods by name (~25)
        1. the great famine (~4,013)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Ruth Campbell
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Killala, Co. Mayo
    Informant
    Mrs Campbell
    Relation
    Unknown
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Killala, Co. Mayo