School: Na Corráin (roll number 9938/9)
- Location:
- Currans, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Cormac Ó Muircheartaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0446, Page 199
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- (continued from previous page)supposed that if you did not eat enough that night that you would not eat enough for the year again.
- The night of the big wind 1839 was supposed to be the wildest night that ever blew; there is hardly any one living now who remembers that night; the wind that night tore up trees by the roots; knocked out houses and other buildings; It also destroyed the crops.
Also about 65 years ago there was a snow-storm which lasted during the whole month of February, and the 24th June the road from Tangney 's hill to the bottom of the Maum, Castleisland, was level with the height of snow that was on the road, and it took the warm sun of July to melt away the snow and then the road was so puddly that you would go down to your knees in puddle. - Collector
- Tim Brosnan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Reineen, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- Mr John Brosnan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Reineen, Co. Kerry
