School: Naomh Bríghid, Blackwater (roll number 7036)
- Location:
- Blackwater, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Diarmuid Ó Súilleabháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0886, Page 091
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- (continued from previous page)saving apparatus but though the life line was shot aboard the poor sailor was unable to make fast as it fell too far away from him.
Taking close aim a third attempt was made to throw the line yet still closer but this time his leg was shot away and so that was the end for him.
- Wreck of the 'Bane' Ship
(Cargo of beans)
Details are lacking about this wreck as regards dates. She was wrecked off Ballyvaldon Gap about seventy years ago and from the wreck came forth a swarm of black rats whose descendants still are with us.
