School: Killurney, Cluain Meala
- Location:
- Cill Urnaí, Co. Thiobraid Árann
- Teacher: Máire de Brún
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0567, Page 278
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“About 40 years ago there was a great storm. ...”
(continued from previous page)following a cloudburst on Slievenamon. All the rivers overflowed their banks and carried away all they met - crops, houses, trees and walls. The people who were living on the side of the hill had to leave their houses and get shelter in farmer's houses because the flood was sweeping down the side of the hill. It carried huge rocks down the side of the hill to St. John's field in Killurney, these can still be seen.
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“About sixty years ago there was a man who went by the name of Pat the fiddler. ...”
About sixty years ago there was a man who went by the name of Pat the fiddler. He was so called because he was a lovely fiddler. When the threshing time came he would go round to the threshings and play the fiddle. When people would have a fat pig to sell they would stay up the night(continues on next page) - Informant
- Mrs A. Keating
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 73
- Address
- Baile Uí Bhuaigh, Co. Thiobraid Árann