School: Ínse Cloch (roll number 7101)
- Location:
- Inchiclogh, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Diarmuid Ó Críodáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0284, Page 180
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- (continued from previous page)People suffered terribly during that year as they could not go outside their doors to do their work. The snow was so high that people did not know roads from fields or fields from hills. During that year and for many years after there was no sickness or disease heard of after the "great snow".Before it started snowing the sheep flocked together and crowded into the valleys, and after the snow storm was over, there were found in heaps dead there. A Great Wind swept over the district in 1839. It was known as the "Big Wind". Two large ships were lost in Bantry Bay. Trees were knocked down in many places, cattle were killed. Roofs and chimneys were blown off houses. It lasted ten days. The direction it blew from was south east. Then it changed to the north West.
- Collector
- Kitty Sullivan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Dromsullivan South, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Mr Keohane
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 70
- Address
- Dromsullivan South, Co. Cork
