dundalkie
17th January 2010, 23:37
I attended the unveiling of a memorial to 3 unknown Welsh seamen in a country churchyard on the Cooley peninsula in Co Louth ROI. It was a very moving cermony and the background to it is as follows:
On the night of April 8th 1858 the sloop ENDEAVOUR of Amlwch carrying a cargo of slate from Bangor to Belfast was wrecked on Cooley point on the North of Dundalk Bay during a South Westerly gale. The bodies of 3 seamen were washed up on the shore at Rathcor and they were laid to rest in a corner of St. Andrew's Church of Ireland graveyard at Bush. The graves were unmarked but the location was passed down in local folklore. A local group got together and decided that a memorial should be erected to the unknown seamen before their story was forgotten. research is under way to try and put names to the seamen.
On the night of April 8th 1858 the sloop ENDEAVOUR of Amlwch carrying a cargo of slate from Bangor to Belfast was wrecked on Cooley point on the North of Dundalk Bay during a South Westerly gale. The bodies of 3 seamen were washed up on the shore at Rathcor and they were laid to rest in a corner of St. Andrew's Church of Ireland graveyard at Bush. The graves were unmarked but the location was passed down in local folklore. A local group got together and decided that a memorial should be erected to the unknown seamen before their story was forgotten. research is under way to try and put names to the seamen.