School: Cnoc an Éin Fhinn (Birdhill) (roll number 13991)

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1. Severe Weather (continued)

   

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   There was a vast number of trees and a few houses knocked in this locality.
   In the year 1837 there was the great snow, but since then we had another great fall. It was the 1st April in 1917 it started and in this locality it was five to ten feet in depth. A few cattle were lost and a great number of birds died.
   The biggest rainstorm that can be remembered was in 1932. It was raining for two days and two nights with fierce thunder and lightning. There were over two hundred acres of land flooded in Birdhill.
   About twenty six years ago there was one day's fierce lightning. It burned a cock of hay owned by Mr. Ryan of Coosane and killed a horse owned by Mr. O'Rourke of Cragg.
   This was told to me by. John Hassett, 74 yrs Farmer Coosane, Birdhill, Limerick. Michael Hassett Coosane Birdhill Limerick.

   

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2. Severe Weather

   “The greatest storm that can be remembered by the old people occurred in the year 1903.”

   

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   The greatest storm that can be remembered by the old people occured in the year 1903. Several roofs were blown off houses and in some cases there were people killed in the houses. In South Tipperary there was a man standing under a tree from a shower of rain. Suddenly the tree fell and the man was badly injured. He was taken

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   Topics

   1. processes and phenomena
      1. severe weather (~1,727)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Ned Gleeson

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Lackenavea (Egremont), Co. Tipperary

   Informant

   Martin Gleeson

   Relation

   Parent

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   60

   Occupation

   Farmer

   Address

   Lackenavea (Egremont), Co. Tipperary