School: Cluainín, Granard
- Location:
- Clooneen, Co. Longford
- Teacher: Tomás Ó Raghallaigh
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0763, Page 119
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Cluainín, Granard
- XML Page 119
- XML “Bad Weather - Dates of Other Storms”
- XML “Bad Weather”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- John Smith, Derrycasson, remembers the great frost. He says it was about 60 years ago. Ralph Dopping, Landlord, he ordered that a jennet be sharpened and toed and directed his yard-man - Mick Murphy - to mount the animal. They brought him down & put him on the ice and tackled him to a boat. The Landlord himself sat in the boat with a knife in hand in case the animal & rider went down to sever the connection. This frost lasted for seven weeks & the stones that were used in building the Barnaferst Bridge, Gowna, were brought across the lake in horses & carts.
- Informant
- John Smith
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Derrycassan, Co. Longford
- Another great frost arrived in the Spring of 1895. It began the day after New Year's Day to freeze & lasted till 1st March. Col. James Dopping, a brother of Ralph(continues on next page)
