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Venus B – a tragedy long remembered

Venus B – a tragedy long remembered

by andrew | Feb 21, 2021 | Ballymacaw, Irish Folk Stories, Irish Ghost Stories, Shipwrecks, Waterford History

A guest blog by David Carroll tells the tragic loss of the barque Venus B on Feb 21st 1885 at Ballymacaw and how it lived long in local folklore From 1937 to 1939, the Irish Folklore Commission enlisted more than 50,000 schoolchildren from 5,000 schools in Ireland to...

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