School: Béalad (C.), Ros Ó gCairbe (roll number 11283)
- Location:
- Bealad East, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Mrs Nora Fitzpatrick
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0316, Page 096
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- (continued from previous page)Buttons. Shoes, musical Instruments. Typewriters Spoons, olive oil and the like. Skins and so on I wore a pair of boots got off the wreck. I also got spoons and Buttons from same source.
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Other wrecked vessels whose cargoes came into Owenahincha bay and from which pitch pine logs have been taken and used fro window frames, doors, tables, etc.
- 1. Big Snow of about 85 years ago.
Our grandfathers and their contemporaries had to dig and delve under snow in search of sheep and cattle; they had to clear away the snow in search of water, turf and other necessaries; it lasted for weeks much hardship was experienced by all.II Snow Storm of about 50 years.
A workman told the following tale of woe he lived at Derryduff.
Was a workman to Stephen Fitzpatrick. One night his wife fell ill and he sped in haste for a local nurse - Mrs Harold, he brought her along in a pannier until she fell through it and he arrived home with the nurse in good time to find his wife had given birth to twin girls.(continues on next page)
