School: Cnoc an Éin Fhinn (Birdhill) (roll number 13991)

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   The heaviest snowfall of recent years occured in the year, 1890. In some places the snow was up to 30 feet in dept. No train could travel for a week as all the telegraph wires were broken down. Thousands of cattle and sheep were lost and one man named Michael Cordue was lost in a place called Killestry outside Killaloe. Following the thaw of the snow a severe frost came. Birds died in thousands and any birds that survived there was nothing on them only the bare skin and bone and an odd feather. The wild birds were so tame that you could walk out and catch them with your hands. The above was told to me by my father Michael Teefey Coosáne Birdhill Co. Limerick. Thomas Teefey Coosáne Birdhill Limerick. 4th February 1938.

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   In the year 1839 there was a very big storm. It was the year Queen Victoria was crowned. In the house of the late William Hassett my great-great-grand-father lived. It was an old saying that an ass used to go on his knees on the eve of the Epiphany. They were going to stay up all night to see the ass going on his knees but at eleven oclock the big storm arose. Shortly afterwards the roof was blown off their own house and they forgot all about the ass.
   There was another big storm in the year 1903.

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