Titanic - A Castlerock Connection

On the morning of the 15th of April 1912 at 2:30 am the Titanic hit an iceberg in the North Atlantic and sank to the bottom of the ocean with the loss of many lives. A number of those that died that night were from the West of Ireland. One of them, from County Sligo, was my grandaunt, Janie Carr, a native of Castlerock, in the parish of Kilmactigue.

Janie was born on February 11th 1867, the second youngest of eight children. Her father was Tom Carr (b circa 1820) who came from Co Fermanagh to herd sheep on the Ox Mountains in the mid 1840’s and married Bridget Goldrick (b circa 1826) of Castlerock.