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   of a bleak hill, the side-car in which they were travelling rose up on one wheel several times until finally it turned over and the occupants were thrown out but escaped serious injury.

   

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2. Rain and Storms

   

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   There was a heavy storm about twentyfour years ago. There was a ship wrecked in Bannow Bay on the Keeragh Rocks just out from the strand in Cullenstown. Nine members of the Fethard life-boat crew lost their lives going to the rescue. The storm lasted for three days and the survivors of the "Mexico" the wrecked ship had to remain on the rocks for three days as no other lifeboat could reach them. During that time one of the crew of the ill-fated vessel died. Some of the bodies were washed ashore at Cullenstown and taken by road to Fethard where a memorial has been erected.

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   Topics

   1. processes and phenomena
      1. rain and floods (~124)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   James Cullen

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Longgraigue, Co. Wexford