history
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Death of a Chimney Sweep
On Thursday 30 August 1832, an inquest was held in Waterford City into the death of a twelve year old ‘climbing boy’ named Michael Brien. The body of the boy was presented before the coroner Michael Evelyn and a ‘respectable jury’. Brien was an apprentice to Philip Corbett; a chimney sweep from Keyser’s Lane in Continue reading
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The Tudor Cannons of Tramore Bay
In 1972 two 16th century Owen cannons were illegally excavated from a shipwreck under Great Newtown Head onto a trawler that was allegedly hired at Dunmore East and smuggled out of Ireland. Two years later British Armouries purchased them for E3,250, a fraction of their value. Subsequently they were put on display in the Tower Continue reading
Tramore of Yore 