The St. Agnes is probably the oldest surviving sail/fishing vessel built on the South Coast of Ireland. Her keel is 26 feet, 31 feet overall and was laid down in a field overlooking Stony Cove in Dunmore East in 1899. She was built by John Halley and Nicholas Murphy of pitch pine in oak. When her hull was completed she was lowered down and floated in Stony Cove with ropes and tackle. She was then rigged with mast, spars and red canvas sails. In 1902 she was officially registered as a fishing boat with registration number W229. She continued her working life as an inshore fishing boat in this form probably until after the Second World War. In the latter half of the 20th Century, the St. Agnes was stripped of her mast and sails, her rail was raised by a couple of planks and an engine was installed. Later again she was fiberglassed and an open wheel house was fitted so she remained a working fishing half decker until 2003 when she was tied up to the wall in Dunmore East for the last time where she sank into the harbour mud. In 2005 Tomas McGrath decided to lift her and begin a complete renovation.