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DINGLE LIGHTHOUSE
Edited By Ted Creedon
The Hydrographer of the Admiralty has published the following notice in the London Gazette: - ‘The Dingle Harbour Authorities have given notice, that on or about 1st April, 1887, a light will be exhibited from a lighthouse recently erected on the point about half a mile N.W.by N. from Beenbane Point, east side of Dingle Harbour entrance: - The light is a fixed red light, and should be visible in clear weather from a distance of nine miles.
BLACK SEA MAIZE From – Cork Examiner, 13 September, 1866. Owing to the unprecedented severity of the weather at this early period of the year, a large Austrian barque, laden with maize from the Black Sea for Limerick, has through stress of weather sought shelter in Smerwick Harbour, on the west coast of Kerry. The Captain of the barque, and the pilot, landed yesterday but owing to the heavy gale of wind were unable to return. Having no money they were in a very inconvenient position; but the Rev. Patrick Mangan, P. P., Territor [Ferriter], to whom they appealed, supplied the best that his hospitable house could afford. SANK OFF THE BLASKETS From – Cork Examiner, 20 May, 1864. On Saturday morning last, in a dense fog, a Scotch [Scots] schooner called the Mary Whyte, of Givan, Ayreshire, was on her voyage round from Tralee in ballast, and bound for Killorglin. The vessel, which was in the charge of a pilot named Daniel Lenihan, struck one of the Blasket Islands, off the western coast of Kerry.
From – Kerry Evening Post, 6 April, 1887.
Captain Blennerhassett, a splendid swimmer and a powerful man immediately dived after him and brought him to the surface where he struggled manfully to keep him. The father of young Costello, who was steering appears to have lost all presence of mind, and permitted the yacht to drift away from the drowning men, who sank and rose several times.
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GUNPOWDER DEATH From – Dublin Evening Mail, 26 November, 1861. At a place called Curraheen, near Tralee, on the road to Dingle, a girl has met her death in consequence of a small quantity of gunpowder which was left over the fire-place to remove damp it had taken. The powder fell accidentally into the fire, the explosion from which so injured her that she died on Thursday. The father of the girl, who was about 15 years of age, lived principally by shooting wild fowl on the sea shore in the neighbourhood, and had the powder for this purpose. PLEASURE TRIP TRAGEDY From – Cork Examiner, 23 May, 1845.
Some fishing boats lying near eventually came to the scene of the disaster, and their crews succeeded in recovering the body of Captain Blennerhassett and bring it ashore where medical aid was almost immediately procured but life was quite extinct. Costello’s body has not yet been found. This melancholy event has www.dinglehorseriding.com/booking cast a gloom over all classes in Killorglin. Captain Blennerhassett was about 38 years old.
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KILLED BY RUNAWAY HORSE From – Kerry Weekly Reporter, 20 February, 1892. A farmer named Thomas Quinn, of Ballyferriter, was killed on his way home from Dingle on last Saturday evening. There were three or four others with him in the car, when on the top of the height on the upper road to Ventry, the horse shyed [sic] and ran. He jumped out to stop the furious animal, but he was caught between the car and the ditch and crushed. He was taken to a house in the neighbouring village where he died in a few hours. He was 45 years.
After having been for three hours bumping on the rocks she went down head foremost and sank in deep water. The crew and pilot, six in number, took to the small boat and after a long pull got into Limerick [Smerwick] harbour, west of Dingle. On Sunday morning the crew left Dingle per mail car for Tralee, from thence per rail to Cork for the Sailor’s Home at Queenstown.
John Hearlehy and son went, with three others, on an excursion of pleasure on the Dingle bay on Sunday morning but were not far from the shore when, owing to their inexperience, the boat was upset and all five thrown into the water. Hearlehy and son not being able to swim, immediately sank. The others remained floating until they were picked up by a boat which put out to their assistance from the shore.
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From – Lloyd’s List, 17 April, 1843.
From – Dublin Evening Mail, 22 June, 1867.
Part of the stern of a vessel was washed on shore near Brandon Head, marked Barbara Ann, St. John’s, N.B. [New Brunswick]. Also, a bottle with the name ‘Julien Bedoe’ on it, together with several pieces of wreck, apparently not long in the water; some fragments of spars, and pieces of sail marked ‘Maworth, maker, Liverpool’ have also been picked up.
It appears that Captain Townsend Blennerhassett and some members of his family, his wife and child included, went cruising in his sail boat yesterday on the River Laune near Cromane. The towrope of the skiff attached to the yacht got foul, and one of his boatmen, named Costello, in attempting to free it fell overboard and sank.
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