School: Shrove (roll number 3470)
- Location:
- Stroove, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Leonard Bovaird
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1118, Page 7
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- (continued from previous page)in Moville Bay into the beach close to Moville wharf. The Rocket apparatus was called out from Greencastle to rescue the crew but owing to it blowing so hard they were unable to put the Rocket line onboard. Eventually a crew of volunteers, local fishermen, manned a boat and rescued the crew.
Eighteen years ago a great fire took place in Glenagivney. It was the burning of a great building know as the Coastguard Station. It consisted of five dwelling houses. It was situated on a hill above the sea.
It was put on fire by a party of Irish Republican Army men. The dwellings were empty and so no harm was done. The walls of this grand building still remain.
- Collector
- Leonard Bovaird
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Múinteoir
