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1. (gan teideal)

   “One Sunday evening about fifty years ago a crowd were gathered in a house in Garrylucas.”

   

   Roinn Roinn Postáil

   One Sunday evening about fifty years ago a crowd were gathered in a house in Garrylucas. It was moonlight and there was a south westerly breeze.
   Suddenly a man burst into the house and said that that a large barque was in the bay and likely to become a wreck. They all rushed out and saw a grand three masted vessel close inshore
   There was a man, Frank Bowen by name, volunteered to go for the Coast Guards and Life Saving Apparatus and as he thought the case was urgent he went for his horse. Another man, John Healy by name, ran for the coastguard station to try and report the vessel before Frank Bowen. He was nearing his destination when he heard the gallop of a horse behind him. By crossing a field he managed to get her reported before Frank
   The Life Saving Apparatus was taken out but when they reached the scene of the supposed wreck they saw the ship sailing away against the wind and over the rocks under full sail. Everybody wondered how this could be because the wind was blowing straight on the shore.
   They saw the vessel round the lighthouse and steer for Kinsale Harbour. Before reaching it her course was changed for the Sovereign Islands where she disappeared. They decided that she was a phantom

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   Teanga

   Béarla

   Bailitheoir

   James Francis Healy

   Inscne

   Fireann

   Aois

   13

   Seoladh

   An Seancheann, Co. Chorcaí

   Faisnéiseoir

   John Healy

   Gaol

   Seantuismitheoir

   Inscne

   Fireann

   Seoladh

   Garraí Lúcáis, Co. Chorcaí