School: An Pasáiste Thoir (C.), Port Láirge
- Location:
- Passage East, Co. Waterford
- Teacher: Clare, Bean Uí Eachthigheirn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0652, Page 283
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- (continued from previous page)calm. Suddenly they heard a sound of chains rattling and sails flapping, in fact all sounds that would be on board a ship, but no voices. Thinking it was a ship which might require assistance they pulled their boat to where they heard the sounds but search as they did they could find no trace of a ship.They got alarmed and decided to give up fishing for that night and go home. From this place to their village would take them about an hour. During that time the wind rose so quickly that they had only just reached home when a violent storm was raging.On several occasions afterwards other fishermen heard the same sound in this place, and without fail the storm came that very night. Today if any fishermen hear this noise of sails flapping and ropes and chains rattling, they immediately give warning to the other boats all all run for shelter, for they know a storm is sure to come.The place where the ship was lost is called the "Donegal Hole". It is just below Creaden Head.
- Collector
- Philomena Walsh
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Passage East, Co. Waterford
- Informant
- Joseph Walsh
- Gender
- Male
