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School: Tairbeart (C.)

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Tairbeart, Co. Chiarraí
Teacher:
Máire, Bean Uí Chonaill
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    Boat Lost in Shannon.
    Seventeen Tarbert Lives Lost.
    On the 15th of August, 1893, the whole parish of Tarbert was profoundly moved at the terrible disaster by drowning, in which seventeen parishoners lost their lives.
    After attending Mass, seventeen people set sail from Back of the Hill in a small fishing boat, 17 feet long.
    They landed safely in Kilkee, and after spending a
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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    1. am
      1. tréimhsí staire sonracha (~25)
        1. an gorta mór (~4,013)
    Language
    English
    Informant
    Gerald O Sullivan
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    60
    Address
    Tairbeart, Co. Chiarraí