School: Baile Chíorbhaic, Domhnach Mór (roll number 1691)
- Location:
- Ballykerwick, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Seán Ó Cathasaigh
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- (continued from previous page)four and five weeks. There were renemants of it there till May.
We do not remember drought in this part of the country at that time. - A fierce gale swept over Donoughmore on the 6th of February 1903. The morning was fine and calm and about two o'clock in the afternoon the wind arose. About six o'clock a regular hurricane was blowing the wind reached a velocity of 100 miles per hour and never went lower than 80 miles and it did not abate until about 12 o'clock the next day.
It did enormous damage houses were unroofed trees felled roads blocked. It blew from the South-west and swept over the whole of Ireland.(continues on next page)- Collector
- Denis O' Leary
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Lackabane, Co. Cork
- Informant
- James Barry
- Gender
- Male