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School: Naomh Pádraig, Carrowmena (roll number 16787)

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Carrowmenagh, Co. Donegal
Teacher:
Pádraig S. Ó Cathain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1118, Page 445

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    There were four ships wrecked in my district, the Mary Snow, the Cambria, the Hecla and the Twilight.
    The Mary Snow was wrecked a few days before Christmas in the year 1769. She left Virginia heavily laden with tobacco, rum, gin and brandy, bound for Derry. The captain's name was Wallace.
    The Glenagivney men knew of the ship's coming and planned to wreck her and then plunder her. They sent Barney Duffy down to Shrove Head to pretend he was a pilot and so lead the ship to destruction on the rocky Glen shore. There was a thick fog that night and the pilot cast anchor in Glenagivney (Kinnegoe) Bay. Messages were sent ashore in bottles asking the people to light bonfires to show the safest part of the port, but the Glen men lit them at
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. events
      1. hardship (~1,565)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Daniel Mac Gettigan
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Carrowmenagh, Co. Donegal
    Informant
    Patrick Mac Conway
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    83
    Address
    Carrowblagh or Leckemy, Co. Donegal