 The sea rose in Penzance and at Newlyn; the same effect was reported at St Ives and Hayle.Although there is no record of the overall death toll, the 19th-century French writer Arnold Boscowitz claimed that "great loss of life and property occurred upon the coasts of Cornwall".The tsunami also reached Galway in Ireland, at a height of , and caused some serious damage to the "Spanish Arch" section of the city wall.