School: Meelick (B.)
- Location:
- Meelick, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Eoghan Ó Néill
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0597, Page 391
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Meelick (B.)
- XML Page 391
- XML “An Doineann”
- XML “An Doineann”
- XML “An Doineann”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- Transcription guide »
You are not logged in, but you are welcome to contribute a transcription anonymously. In this case, your IP address will be stored in the interest of quality control.By clicking the save button you agree that your contribution will be available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License and that a link to dúchas.ie is sufficient as attribution. - on a Thursday morning at four oclock in the year 1928 a great storm arose accompanied by lightning and rain The tide rose to such a height that the bank broke and flooded the lower part of Coonagh. A man named Joe Enright was turning cattle out of a field near the bank. The tide just came along and he had to go up on the pier of a gata till a boat was brought to rescue him. Many sheep were lost in the flood.
- In the year 1839 a terrible storm raged over Ireland causing great havoc. Twenty or thirty years ago the old people looked back(continues on next page)
