Scoil: An Bóthar Buí (B.), Áth Treasna (uimhir rolla 16396)

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1. A Great Flood

   

   Roinn Roinn Postáil

   The biggest flood in this district that was known to the oldest person living at the time occurred on Sunday night, July 18th, 1926.
   The River Araglen flows beside where I live, and I own a few fields on its bank. The Araglen is a tributary of the Blackwater. It rises in the townland of Glountanefinane in North-west Cork and flows into the Blackwater. As the crow flies, from its source to its mouth is a distance of only about ten miles, but the river itself is very much longer as it is constantly winding as it flows along through a beautiful valley. This river is very subject to floods, for countless streams flow into it on its course. The flat land along its banks is covered over frequently, making the valley like a huge lake.
   The weather in July 1926 was fine and much of the hay was saved before the flood. There was a thunderstorm on Saturday night, July 18th. The sky was lightened up every four minutes with brilliant sheets of light, and till daybreak on Sunday morning the rumbling of distant thunder could be heard in the distance. No rain fell however in the district in which I live. Sunday was fine and calm, ominously calm. As the time passed on the day became close and oppressive, and one could feel that the air

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   Stair Athraigh

   Topaicí

   1. processes and phenomena
      1. rain and floods (~124)

   Teanga

   Béarla

   Bailitheoir

   John Galvin

   Inscne

   Fireann

   Gairm bheatha

   Teacher (Léirítear teidil na ngairmeacha i mBailiúchán na Scol sa bhunteanga inar cláraíodh iad)

   Seoladh

   Islandbrack, Co. Cork