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I never knew this. 🌊 The Addergoole Fourteen: A True Titanic Story On 11 April 1912, fourteen people from the rural parish of Addergoole, near Lahardane in County Mayo, boarded the RMS Titanic at Queenstown (now Cobh). Most were young men and women travelling together to start new lives in America. When Titanic struck an iceberg late on 14 April, only three of the fourteen survived. Eleven were lost at sea. The survivors were Annie Kate Kelly, Annie McGowan, and Delia McDermott — who famously returned to her cabin for her hat before finding a lifeboat. Addergoole suffered the greatest proportional loss of any parish on the Titanic — eleven deaths from a small community. Families received telegrams confirming the tragedy in the weeks that followed. Today, Lahardane is known as Ireland’s Titanic Village. A stained glass window, memorial park, and annual bell-ringing ceremony remember the Addergoole Fourteen each year on the anniversary of the sinking. Their story is one of emigration, hope, and loss that connects a Mayo village to one of the world’s most famous maritime disasters. #AddergooleFourteen #Titanic #IrishHistory #Lahardane #Mayo #TitanicVillage #NeverForgotten #irishgem #theirishgem