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 Costello Bay Station
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| davidjbw |
Posted on 24/06/2013 21:45
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William Day RN no 130136 I discovered your great site six days ago and have been welcomed by Tony who has been very helpful already but I don’t wish to impose on his good nature. I've copied quite a bit of stuff from the site and discovered how to get info from the National Archives. I am going to meet up with 20 American relatives in Ireland in late July and, as I told Tony, Grandfather Bill Day’s time in Ireland was a bit of a mystery. However, from my first look into the site I found he had been a coastguard and discovered his RN number and downloaded his service record. I discovered he’d been in the R.F.R and was called up for WWI and was on HMS Majestic when it was sunk at Gallipoli. He had a pub in Bridgwater, The Crowpill Inn, appropriately in sight of the river and the docks and he died a year after I was born in 1939. He served as a coastguard at – Rosmoney 1897 – 1900 Lough Swilly 1900 – 1903 Costello Bay 1903 – 1904 Ballycastle 1904 – 1906 Howth 1906 – 1910 I've gleaned some information from searches of the site about Rosmoney, Lough Swilly and Ballycastle including photos but I have nothing on Costello Bay; can someone tell me where the station was? I believe there were two. Perhaps I can get pictures from Google maps. Also I know the “crew” at Rosmoney but I’d like to find out who he shared the posting with at the other stations. I am familiar with Howth as I have a cousin in Malahide (incidentally I believe there were a few shenanigans went on there!) If you can help I’d be very grateful. The information about the lives of the Coastguards in Ireland is quite an eye-opener - I’d no idea - and these Yanks are in for a shock to find they have such a strong British connection and that their father was born in the Coastguard station at Rosmoney; at the moment they have a rather romantic view! Regards to you all. David. ( to the administrator - if I need a nom de plume – can you make it “Kindly Light”) |
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| bpa |
Posted on 11/07/2013 15:30
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Senior Member  Posts: 134 Joined: 11/11/2009 |
One stations is on Costello or Cashla Bay in Galway just south of Rossaveal harbour. On ADM documentts sometimes modern spelling Cashla is spelt as Casleh The Google link to the staton ruins is https://maps.goog...,6.83,,0,0 On the www.osi.ie website - in the interactive map viewer you can look at an 1860s map (25" map) to see the station in context. Edited by bpa on 11/07/2013 15:38 |
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