School: Cnoc an Éin Fhinn (Birdhill) (roll number 13991)
- Location:
- Cooleen, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Micheál Ó Meachair
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0539, Page 022
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- (continued from previous page)The heaviest snowfall of recent years occured in the year, 1890. In some places the snow was up to 30 feet in dept. No train could travel for a week as all the telegraph wires were broken down. Thousands of cattle and sheep were lost and one man named Michael Cordue was lost in a place called Killestry outside Killaloe. Following the thaw of the snow a severe frost came. Birds died in thousands and any birds that survived there was nothing on them only the bare skin and bone and an odd feather. The wild birds were so tame that you could walk out and catch them with your hands.
The above was told to me by my father Michael Teefey Coosáne Birdhill Co. Limerick. Thomas Teefey Coosáne Birdhill Limerick. 4th February 1938.
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- Collector
- Michael Hassett
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Coosane, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- John Hassett
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 74
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Coosane, Co. Tipperary
