School: Garracloon (roll number 6852)
- Location:
- Garrycloonagh, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: James J. Clarke
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0148, Page 32
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- In 1895 there was a great frost and it lasts for seven weeks. The lakes and rivers and Lough Conn were frozen over. The frost began in January and lasted to the end of February. The people and cattle and horses were able to walk from one side of the River Deel to the other.
There was a great thunderstorm on the third of June 1908. In 1929 Dontoon Bride was blown up and many acres of land around Lough Conn were covered with water. In 1917 there was a great snowfall and some of the snow remained on the ground until June. It began on a Thursday morning at the end of January and it continued falling until Saturday morning. There was a strong breeze blowing and the snow was in heaps on the roads and in the fields. It was twenty feet deep in some places but none on the top of the hills. People could not travel on the roads for a couple of weeks. - Collector
- Peter Keane
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Crannagh, Co. Mayo
