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5.
Also his son Patrick, a lad much loved by all
His equal you would not find in all of Donegal
And James and Patrick Donegan,
Two brothers kind and true
That day they went a-fishing.
Their poor people sadly rue.
A loving wife and children, mourn John Gallagher’s sad end.
O, may the Saviour pity them, and be to them a friend
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Poem  [duchas:4392710]

In the year of 1912 there was a mission held in this chapel which closed on the 13th of October. On the evening of the 14th the chapel was burned. Most of the chapel was made of wood and this wood was just newly painted so when the flames started there was nothing to keep them back. It only took about two hours and the whole thing was burned.

This chapel was built in the year 1835. In 1914 the new chapel was built and from 1912 to 1914 Mass was said in the “Darley Hall”.

6.
The herring boats, with bravest crews, 
May sail from shore to shore
But those faithful men of Fanaghan,
Shall plough the waves no more. 
In their homes that night,
The lamps burned bright,
But now that vigil is oer,
For that absent crew that no one knew,
Had reached the golden shore.

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7.

‘Twas early next morning
The news it went round.
When the bodies of poor Kennedy
And Donegan were found.
To St John’s Point they drifted in,
Almost hand in hand.
Washed by the waves,
They floated to the strand.


8.
Just at the pier of Ballysagart. 
Touching to Relate,
Alongside of the shattered boat
Which caused their cruel fate
Each had a solemn funeral
Shall I forget the day.
Their bodies with all honour due
Were laid in Frosses Clay.
9.
The Sunday of the funeral
It was a mournful day
The people came in hundreds
All their last respects to pay
They came in grief from far and near.
The country oer and oer
And the tear of regret
Falls from them yet
For the fishers of Inver shore.