School: Páirc Árd (High Park) (roll number 11431)
- Location:
- Ceathrú Mhic Giolla Shúiligh, Co. Shligigh
- Teacher: Eoghan Ó Conaill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0169, Page 252
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- To see Knocknarea clear is a good sign but to see it covered is a bad sign. To hear the birds singing early in the morning is a sure sign of a good day. In or about fifty years ago a thunder storm threw the gable of Tubberunane School and now it is gone altogether. About in the year 1934 a horse owned by Mr Gilgan of Marshrea was killed by lightning, also two cows owned by Mr Tempany Skreen in or about the same year both happened. No one around here can give any information about the great storm in 1839. In the year 1921 there was a great drought and there was no drying of(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Kathleen Diamond
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Tobar Adhamhnáin, Co. Shligigh
- Informant
- Mr Diamond
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 52
- Address
- Tobar Adhamhnáin, Co. Shligigh
- Informant
- Mr Dooney
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 45
- Address
- Tobar Adhamhnáin, Co. Shligigh
