School: St Egney's (C.), Buncrana
- Location:
- Buncrana, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Ellen Daly
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Over a hundred years ago a boat was lost in Lough Swilly. It was called the Sharagore boat. There were two brothers, Pat and Peter McLaughlin and two cousins, John and Peter Mc L drowned. They were out gathering seaweed in the month of June when a sudden gust of wind and a heavy shower of hail-stones began and sank the boat. The people of Glackrow were watching the boat but when the shower began they lost sight of it. A few days later the boat came back into the same bay as it left - All hands were drowned.
Given by Wm John Mclaughlin, age 89, Carva. Linsfort, Buncranna, Donegal
To Margaret Diver, Carva. Linsfort PO, Buncranna, Donegal
- Collector
- Margaret Diver
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Carvagh, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- William John Mc Laughlin
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 89
- Address
- Carvagh, Co. Donegal
