School: Ballyhurst, Tipperary (roll number 4562)
- Location:
- Ballyhusty, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Stás, Bean Uí Fhloinn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0579, Page 145
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- (continued from previous page)gale arose and swept all the snow to the ditches and walls. Hundreds of cattle were lost more especially sheep. all the birds of the country died because the snow was frozen on the ground and it prevented them from getting food. After three weeks when the snow had all melted the bodies of people killed in the snow storm were found and carcases of sheep. In the year 1900 there was a great thunder storm. At six o'clock in the evening it started and lasted until 9[?] o'clock the following morning. When it got dark you could read a paper with the lightning. The houses seemed to shake with the rapid succession of thunder bolts. When all the thunder was over countless numbers of cattle were found in every (found) field burned to ashes. In 1887 there was a great drought, wells and streams ran dry; grass was burned; crops failed.
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