The White Star Liner "Titanic", the largest vessel in the world at that time sailed from Southampton after calling at Queenstown for passengers bound for New York, collided with an iceberg shortly before midnight on the 14th of April, 1912, five of its watertight compartments were ruptured, causing the ship to sink at 2:20 AM April 15th, 1600 people were drowned.

Of a party of 14 people who were on the Titanic from the parish of Addergoole, Co. Mayo, Ireland, only 3 were saved.

 

 

On Sunday 14th April, 2002 after a moving ceremony in St. Patrick's Chapel, Lahardane for the repose of the souls who lost their lives in the Titanic Disaster a marble plaque was unveiled. The plaque is on the church wall near to where the baptismal fount stood, it gives the townlands, names and dates of birth for each Addergoole victim.

A more extensive memorial to the 11 Addergoole men and women who perished in this disaster, and also the three women who survived, shall will be erected in the church grounds in the coming year. It is also hoped that a center shall be built in the village by the year 2012 for the centenary.

 

Passengers at the White Star Dock at Queenstown (now Cobh).

 

 

 

 

 

Click on the various links on this page to view interesting newspaper articles from 1912, details of the people who drowned, those who survived and events organised to raise finance for the memorial.