School: Cortown (roll number 3113)

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1. Severe Weather Continued (continued)

   

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   but they reached the chapel by walking along a ridge of hills that runs from Carriga to Newcastle chapel.
   At this time, too, sheep were lost, and as no trace of them was to be found after a day or two, they were given up as dead. But after three or four days yellow marks were seen in the snow and on digging down the sheep were found in a kind of chamber in the snow which was formed by the heat of the sheep's breath and with the ground picked bare of grass.
   Birds, it was noticed after that snowstorm, were very scarce.
   A lady named Mary Cahill, went on her ceilidhe to a house about 200 yards away. While she was away the wind storm of '92 began. It was so bad that she was unable to get home and had to sleep the night in the neighbours. When she got up the next day she didn't recognise her own house, with the trees blown down and the roof of a newly built car house blown away.
   This same Mary Cahill was on her ceilidhe in a different house either during the summer of '92 or of '93 when a great thunderstorm began. Again Mary was unable to go home. The coming of Mary on her ceilidhe to a house was henceforth considered as a portent of a great storm.

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   History Edit

   Topics

   1. processes and phenomena
      1. severe weather (~1,727)

   Language

   English

   Informant

   Mrs James Smyth

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Kells, Co. Meath