School: Lubhghortán (Lowertown), Scoil Mhuire (roll number 4172)
- Location:
- Lowertown, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Mhathúna
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0289, Page 275
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- (continued from previous page)baulk off the rock into the sea. He could swim so he clung on to it, and the next wave threw the two of them up on the rock again. He clung to the rock and brought the baulk with him and was saved. Another stormy night a sailing ship came around the Mizen Head. Her sails were broken by the wind and her steering geer broken down, so she drifted along till she came to the Dollar Rocks. There she was smashed among the rocks and the people were dying on the rocks with the cold. The people from Gunpoint and Ballybrack got a six oared boat and rowed up to them. When they got up there, they couldn't get near them because the sea was covered with wreckage, so some of the boat men tied ropes round their bodies and walked along until they(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Annie Donovan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Gunpoint, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Mr Jeremiah Donovan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 97
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Gunpoint, Co. Cork
