School: Caisleán Uí Liatháin (B.) (roll number 1867)
- Location:
- Castlelyons, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Éamonn Ó Ceallacháin
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- (continued from previous page)was from seven to ten feet high.
There was a man living near Castlelyons Chapel (Fermoy, Co. Cork.) The snow drifted up to the eaves of his house. He slept all day on Sunday for he thought it was night when there was no light coming in the window. Then he got hungry and he got up. When he opened the door he saw all the snow.In the year 1904 a great storm blew down the cow-house and the roof of another shed belonging to Maurice Toomey of Peafield, in the parish of Lisgoold Co. Cork.
- About forty or fifty years ago there was a terrible frost. It lasted six weeks. It came on before a lot of the snow that fell before it was melted. The snow was hard on some fields for six weeks. There was no work done in the country because the ground was as hard as iron. People would be in(continues on next page)
- Collector
- John Hurley
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Peter Hurley
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 47
- Address
- Deer Park, Co. Cork
