Sligo Shipwreck Mystery Solved – 250 Years After it Sank
Sligo Shipwreck Mystery Solved – 250 Years After it Sank 17th December 2020 The remains of the large, wooden vessel on Streedagh Strand in Sligo,known locally as the ‘Butter Boat”, and now identified as a 1770 shipwreck named Greyhound which claimed 20 lives. One man - a Mr Williams ‘from Erris’ - was recorded as surviving the wrecking The National Monuments Service says it has resolved the mystery of a shipwreck off Co Sligo's Streedagh strand where three Armada ships are known to have foundered in 1588. Research has confirmed that a wreck of a vessel off Streedagh known as "the ...
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