School: Kilrush (roll number 14039)
- Location:
- Ballynaberney, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: C. E. Kidd
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0895, Page 205
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- 205Severe WeatherIn the year 1918. There was a bad snow-fall. The snow lay so deep that when Mr. Hatton of died his coffin had to be drawn across fields to find the graveyard. They did not know where to find the burial ground.
In 1922 Daddy remembers a bad rainfall which caused the Slaney to flow out on the road at Ballycarney Bridge. The heavy rain lasted for a night and a day.
Daddy says he remembers a very bad thunderstorm. He said he was coming in from the field to light his fathers pipe, and he said he saw a big ball of fire splitting the clouds. This ball he said is called a thunderbolt, and it did a lot of damage.
See front pageR. Masterson
Tomanoole,
Ballycarney.
(Information recd. from Henry Masterson) Parent
- Collector
- R. Masterson
- Address
- Tomanoole, Co. Wexford
- Informant
- Henry Masterson
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Tomanoole, Co. Wexford
- The greatest storm my father remembers was on 4th July 1908. It was thunder-storm and it began at 9.30 p.m. and lasted until 4.30 a.m.
There was heavy rain from2 a.m. till 3 a.m. and there were 2" of water in(continues on next page)
