From The Archives Edited By Ted Creedon Dingle Port News From – Kerry Evening Post, 11 April 1860
The schooner Ellen of Cork is discharging a cargo of over 100 tons of wheat at the pier for R. Hickson and Son, Milltown mills. The Susan of Dingle left this morning with 10 tons of breadstuffs from the Milltown mills for Killorglin. [Breadstuffs – meal, flour or grain for making bread]. Mr. Hugh Cooper has left the Dingle coastguard station, on promotion, to take charge of the Cromane station as chief boatman. Up to a year ago he was the chief boatman in charge of the Castlegregory station. However, he was demoted temporarily for giving one of his men a day’s leave of absence. He has now been reinstated in his former rank.
Kilshannig Wreck From – Shipping and Mercantile Gazette, 23 November 1850
The schooner Errichetta of Naples has been wrecked after stranding at Kilshannig, near Castlegregory. She was bound for Limerick with a cargo of wheat from Barletta, on the east coast of Italy. One man of the crew of twelve was washed overboard and lost before she stranded. The cargo has been totally destroyed. The chief boatman in charge of the Castlegregory coast guard station, John Town, was responsible for saving the lives of ten of the crew by wading into the sea at great personal risk. The pilot, who had joined the ship at Falmouth, reported that they had been struck by a gale the night before which had ripped away the vessel’s sails. He said the cargo had shifted and the ship became uncontrollable.
the raging mob in Dingle. She appealed for additional troops to be sent to Dingle but this could not be approved without Government sanction. In the riot in Dingle two weeks ago the house of a Mr. Kevane was entered and thieves made off with 53 guineas.
Towed to Cardiff From – Shipping and Mercantile Gazette, 2 February 1877.
The barque James Duncan from Prince Edward Island, which was badly damaged in a storm off Dingle recently, arrived in Cardiff this morning after been towed from Dingle by the Liverpool tug Great Western.
Abandoned at Slea Head From – Tralee Chronicle, 12 April 1859
On Thursday morning last the Schooner Fanny drifted close to the rocks at Sleigh Head [sic] in calm seas and thick fog. She was carrying a cargo of flour and meal from the Shannon to Dingle and Caherciveen. The captain feared she would be wrecked so, after dropping two anchors, he and the crew abandoned her and proceeded to Ventry harbour in a small boat. The following morning H. M. Revenue cutter Desmond left Dingle and arrived at where the Fanny was still anchored and undamaged. The crew of the Desmond raised the anchors and headed for Dingle under full sail. The vessel was handed over to the Receiver of Droits, Mr. W. Collier.
Ventry Mystery
McCarthy, from the western part of Ventry parish, went to do some weeding in a potato garden with his idiot son James who was aged about 30. During the day the son headed homeward. The old man followed him as fast as he could but lost sight of him at a bend in the road near a high cliff. Mr. McCarthy met a man who said that he had not seen James on the road. The whole area has been searched but no trace of the son has been found. The general belief is that he must have wandered too near the edge of the cliff and fell down into the sea.
Serious Accident From – Tralee Chronicle, 23 January 1847
As the Inspecting Commander of the Dingle coastguard, Mr. Stern, and his chief officer, Mr. Jackson, were travelling in a horse and trap, on an inspection of the area’s coastguard stations yesterday, a serious accident occurred. Some goats ran across the road and frightened the horse who jumped over a wall and down a slope. Mr. Jackson was thrown out of the trap and rolled down the slope until his head became jammed between two rocks. The trap was smashed to pieces. Mr Stern had jumped out on the hillside and was uninjured. This accident is deeply regretted in Dingle as Mr. Jackson enjoyed the esteem of all who knew him and was always most charitable to the poor. [The impression is given that Mr. Jackson didn’t survive the accident – ‘enjoyed the esteem of all who knew him’. However, Admiralty records in the National Archives at Kew show that Thomas Jackson was appointed chief officer of Dingle coastguard station in 1842 and was discharged from service there in 1854].
From – Cork Examiner, 10 June 1852
Last Wednesday an old man named Charles
[John Town was awarded a silver medal for bravery by the National Institution for the Preservation of Lives and Property from Shipwreck – renamed the RNLI in 1854].
Riots in Dingle From – Saunders’s News-Letter, 20 June 1793
During the rioting in Dingle on last Sunday and Monday it is reported that several members of the army and the rioters were killed. We understand that the rioters numbered 4,000 and that the elegant mansion of W. T. Mullins was totally demolished. Mrs. Mullins arrived in Tralee from Dingle with a chest of deeds and other papers, said to be valued at £100,000, which she lodged in the Customs-house to secure them from West Kerry Live 15
