School: Cnoc na Groighe (B.), Ráth Mhór (roll number 1685)

Location:
Knocknagree, Co. Cork
Teacher:
Diarmuid Ó Muimhneacháin
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  1. In the year 1901 there was a thunder storm. It started about nine o'clock at night and lasted until morning. It killed cattle.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. processes and phenomena
      1. severe weather (~1,727)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Cornelius Linehan
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Knockyhena, Co. Cork
    Collector
    John Christie Linehan
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Knockyhena, Co. Cork
    Informant
    Patrick Linehan
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    57
    Address
    Knockyhena, Co. Cork
  2. There was a great snow-storm in the year 1892.- It lay ten feet deep on the ground. Sheep were smothered and people had to clear the ground to leave out their cattle. It stayed six weeks on the ground.
    There was a great flood in the year 1924 It carried a house and three children, and two foot-bridges at Loobridge. There was another great rain and wind storm. It knocked the roofs off houses and knocked ricks of hay and straw and people could not go outside their doors. This happened about sixty years ago
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