School: Na Hárda (Ardfield), Clanna Caoilte (roll number 1267)

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1. Cruatan - Shipwreck (continued)

   

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   to his doom rather than suffer alone for his evil career. The anchor remained there for years causing damage to seins and scene of the disaster is since known as "Cuas an anncaire" or the cove of the anchor.

   Annie Driscoll

   From D Feen

   

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2. A Ghost of the Sea

   

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   In olden times and even as late as eighty years ago, the sea was as haunted as the land. The small timber ships which were then engaged crossing the Atlantic, were numerous and far from being sea-worthy in comparisons with the vessels of the present day. To add to their danger there were no light-houses with the result that when approaching the Irish coast in dark and stormy nights, many of them had been wrecked and sometimes with the loss of all hands.

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   Topics

   1. time
      1. historical periods by name (~25)
         1. the great famine (~4,013)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Annie Driscoll

   Gender

   Female

   Informant

   D. Feen

   Address

   Dunowen, Co. Cork