School: Scoil an Chlochair, Cappamore
- Location:
- Cappamore, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: An tSr. Fionntán
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0520, Page 284
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- (continued from previous page)side. People, next day couldn't get out of their beds, so the neighbours came to their aid and got ladders, put them up to the windows and gave them in food.
On the 12th of June 1907, one of the greatest floods that has ever been witnessed in the locality, spread over a large tract of land near my native village. It broke down bridges and stripped houses of their roofs, and caused terrible destruction to both the crops and the cattle in the district.
- In the year 1892, there was a great snowstrom in the month of February, (the 9th). It lasted for a fortnight. The snow was seven or eight feet in depth. On the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Máire Ní Mhadáin
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 12
- Address
- Cappamore, Co. Limerick
- Informant
- Tomás Ó Madáin
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 52
- Occupation
- Feirmeoir
- Address
- Ballycoshown, Co. Limerick
