School: Cluainín, Granard
- Location:
- Clooneen, Co. Longford
- Teacher: Tomás Ó Raghallaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0763, Page 120
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- (continued from previous page)Dopping, former owner of Darrycasson Estate rebuked his steward for not being cleverer in having his potatoes housed thereby saving money. He took the order & had them carted in and housed. When this frost set in and the first thing that was noticed was a stream of clear water coming out the door of the house in which the potatoes were housed. The whole barn of potatoes in a fortnight was reduced to a yard high. This same frost killed the furze bushes in the locality. The depth of the ice on Lough Gowna was 12". It was in this year that the rabbits & hares got from the main land to the island of "Inish More on Lough Gowna. They have never succeeded in getting back since.
14th Nov. 1919 - There occured a black frost with wind which killed every potato in Ireland which was undug.(continues on next page)
