School: Newbliss (roll number 8328)
- Location:
- Newbliss, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: Margaret E. Doogan
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0950, Page 230
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- There was a terrible flood on the Curragh at Annalise Newbliss about thirty years ago, and it got frozen. A man named Mr. Sherry crossed it on the ice with a ton of pork on a hose and cart. He said he could see the water under the ice. Another horse(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Mr R. Dickson
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Annalore, Co. Monaghan
- Long ago there used to be terrible frosts, and all the lakes around her were frozen, people would go out skating, and sometimes if it were a very bad frost, men used to draw timber with horses from the island on Carlougharoo lake which is just outside of Newbliss
There was a very bad storm about forty years ago. In the fields, pecks of hay and straw were burned, thatched houses were burned, cattle and horses were killed with the lightning when standing under the trees for shelter.
There were also a lot of trees blown down, and they blocked the roads until they were able to be removed
