School: An Clochar, Dún Mánmhaí (roll number 5636)

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1. The Big Snow (continued)

   

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   not found till some time after, about the middle of May.
   The mail coach which travelled from Cork to Bantry with letters etc., was delayed, so that people had no communication with each other, whatsoever.

   

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2. Sir Richard Cox

   

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   "'Mid mountains hoary and famed in story,
   Great Carbery's glories Dunmanway lies;
   With the Bandon flowing, its charms bestowing,
   Which in Mount Owen, does take a rise.
   And there a lake is, where the duck and drake is,
   And the crane can take its sweet feast of frogs,
   And when night comes round,
   Dark spirits surround it,
   For there was drowned Sir Richard Cox."
   Sir Richard Cox was one time owner of nearly the whole of Dunmanway. He was once Lord High Chancellor of Ireland and was called the "Father of Dunmanway" by every protestant in the town. A protestant himself, he came

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   Language

   English

   Collector

   Nell Mc Carthy

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Dunmanway, Co. Cork