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 024
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Severe Weather (continued)
“The greatest storm that can be remembered by the old people occurred in the year 1903.”
(continued from previous page)to an hospital in Tipperary and he died in a few days later.
There was a great snow fall in the year 1850. In some places it was up to 10 feet in depth. There were hundreds of cattle and sheep lost in the snow. It was on the ground for a fortnight.
In the year 1932 there was a terrible rain storm. It was raining for two days and two nights. There was up to eighty acres of meadowing flooded in Birdhill. There was a child named Wollroof drowned near Killaloe on that day.
About 25 years ago there was a severe thunder storm. There were great flashes of lightning and heavy claps of thunder going also. The lightning killed a horse belonging to Mr O'Rourke and it burnt a cock of hay belonging to Mr Ryan of Coosane.
The above was told to me by my father Martin Gleeson, 60 yrs farmer Birdhill Limerick. Ned Gleeson Lackin Birdhill Limerick.
6/2/38
- 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