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School: Rush (C.) (roll number 16125)

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Rush, Co. Dublin
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Mrs Monahan
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0785, Page 185

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    a little baby who was smiling from the box. They brought the child over to the Island and some of the inhabitants adopted it and called it, "The Ocean Child"
    The rock on which the vessel was wrecked is called, "The Tailyeur Rock".
    A quanity of sovereigns and old gold was found washed ashore and some people are said to have made a fortune collecting them. Had the wreck happened in the day-time less lives would have been lost.
    Another notable wreckage was that of a ship of an unknown name which came from Sierra Leone. The crew mutinied killed both the captain and his wife and brought the ship ashore at a place best known as the "Roarin Well". There was a cargo of beutiful skins, ivory and gold on board. This wreck happened about ninty years ago.
    In the year 1887 a schooner coming
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. events
      1. hardship (~1,565)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Kathleen Clarke
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Rush, Co. Dublin