School: Gort na Mara (Seafield) (roll number 11565)
- Location:
- Donaghintraine, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Bean Uí Ghathaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0168, Page 081
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You are not logged in, but you are welcome to contribute a transcription anonymously. In this case, your IP address will be stored in the interest of quality control.By clicking the save button you agree that your contribution will be available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License and that a link to dúchas.ie is sufficient as attribution. - Sixty years ago, (1877) six boats went out terring fishing from Pullendiva pier. It was the calmest night in all that year until about twelve o'clock. They never got such a take of fish. Then a black man, a stranger, in a small boat came to Owen Carr of Dooneil and said "Oweny Bán haul up your nets". Carr went to work gathering his nets. All the rest of the men in the other boats wondered why he was gathering the nets the "take" being so good. He then turned his boat for Pullendiva Pier and before he had time to gain the pier the storm rose and drifted him on to a rock. The other men were all lost. In three weeks after they were found in a place called(continues on next page)
