School: Tíréaltan, Maghcromtha (roll number 13286)
- Location:
- Teerelton, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Dd. Ó Murchadha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0339, Page 068
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- (continued from previous page)hay. In a certain field in our farm the flood took three stacks a distance of at least seventy yards and laid them intact on a more elevated part of the field. Many houses were flooded and the ground floors of the two public- houses at Cooldorrihy were flooded to a height of six feet, but the saddest episode of the flood in this district was the death of a fine hearty young man. He was coming from Macroom and braved the flood the whole road along until night overtook him within a mile or two of Cooldorrihy cross. He groped along safely as he thought in the dark until he came to a spot where the arch of the bridge was completely swept away and no one having taken the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Joan O' Riordan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cooldorragha, Co. Cork
- Informant
- James Mc Carthy
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 63
- Address
- Deshure, Co. Cork
