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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 845632
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/845632
NG71SW 8010 c. 701 124
N57 8.7 W5 48
NLO: Isleornsay [name: NG 701 124]
Ornsay [name centred NG 710 127]
Sound of Sleat [name centred NG 72 09]
Skye [name centred NG 45 35].
Isle Ornsay, (Skye, N.B.), 5th Dec. The CITY OF LIMERICK, Maxwell, of Londonderry, from Liverpool to Newcastle, (with salt) came on shore on the Mainland, opposite this place, 3rd inst., afterwards took fire and sunk: crew, masts, rigging, and some sails saved.
Source: The Marine List, LL, No. 10,836, London, Saturday December 9 1848.
NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 8403).
(Classified as schooner, with cargo of salt: date of loss cited as as 3 December 1848). City of Limerick: this vessel stranded opposite Isle Ornsay, [caught] fire and sank. Capt. Maxwell.
Registration: Londonderry. Built 1839. 90 tons burthern.
(Location of loss cited as N57 10.0 W5 42.0).
I G Whittaker 1998.
The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. Isleornsay is on the mainland (of Skye), within Sleat parish, and opposite (to the W of) the island of Ornsay. Ornsay harbour is presumably the area between Ornsay (to the SE) and the island of Skye (to the W and NW). The 1998 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map notes Harbour [NAT] around NG 705 128.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 25 July 2006.
