School: An Caladh (roll number 11313/11419)
- Location:
- Portmagee, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: P.Ó Loingsig
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0479, Page 240
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- Portmagee.
Portmagee got its name after a a navigator called Captain Magee, who landed where the ruins of the old Coast Guard Station now stand.
He was Captain of a smuggling ship and all the crew that were on board were Kerrymen.
He had many apprentices for making ships, and when they had the ships built he gave them no wages, but a blow on the head that killed them.
He once employed a widow's son to build a ship and when the boy had the ship built Magee found a fault with it.
The widow's son asked him to show where the fault was, and while Magee was stooping down the boy hit him a blow on the head that killed him.
Taken from Ml. Sullivan, Portmagee by his daughter Josepheen.
- Collector
- Josapheen Sullivan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Portmagee, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- Michael Sullivan
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Portmagee, Co. Kerry
