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School: Cromadh (B.)

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Croom, Co. Limerick
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Dáithí Ó Ceanntabhail
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0506, Page 718

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    on the corner near Poll Una. It couldn't freeze there the springs were boiling up so strongly, but the ice was thicker than the length of my arm. We collected turf from the lake edge, there was any amount of it there that time, and we built a big fire on the ice in the middle of the lake. We lit it of a Sunday evening and it burned away for two nights and two days until on Tuesday evening, the ice gave way around the fire with a long roar that you'd hear in the "dhoun hir" and that frightened everyone that heard it. The roar ran along under the ice to the bank and the fire and ashes were swallowed in the middle of the lake." Harry Costelloe thinks that frost was about 64 years ago; he is now 75 and thinks that when he drew the turf sods from around the lake to make the "bonfire" on the ice that he was about 11 years of age.
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      1. weather-lore (~6,442)
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    Languages
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