School: Ráth Dubh, An Bhlárna (roll number 8393)
- Location:
- Rathduff, Co. Cork
- Teacher: D. Ó Súilleabháin
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- (continued from previous page)On the sixth of March eighteen hundred and sixty seven. It snowed for about a day. It rose to a height of four feet in the flat but in drifts it was about fifteen. The snow stayed on the ground for two months. A flock of sheep belonged to a farmer where Mr. Coleman now lives got smothered.
About the year eighteen hundred and sixty on the start of March we had a drought period. Most of the wells were dry and some rivers. People had to go very far away to get spring water. Some of the animals died of thirst. - We had a severe storm in November nineteen hundred and nine. It knocked houses and hayricks. The storm was accompanied by heavy rain which flooded rivers and it lasted for a day.
We had a dry summer in the nineteen twenty two. Mostly all the wells and streams throughout this district were dry. The grass did not(continues on next page)- Collector
- Maureen O' Brien
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Knockantota South, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Mrs T. Kearney
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Knockantota South, Co. Cork