A real winter

Trogdor

I had a few pictures sent over to me yesterday taken in the 40's in Brittas back when there were proper winters. Who says March can't deliver:p.
Enjoy;)

http://www.brayweather.com/1940's.html

SpitfireIV

Wow! Impressive, heard many stories of the '47 snow, but here in Carlow town you hear more about the floods which followed rather than the snow itself

Trogdor

CroppyBoy1798 wrote: »

Wow! Impressive, heard many stories of the '47 snow, but here in Carlow town you hear more about the floods which followed rather than the snow itself

Yeh, after so much snow the floods must have been awful, especially if there was a mild Southerly or something and it all melted at once!

Paddy.1

just a pity we didn't exist in them days but there ya go. Cool pics.

Good stuff trogdor

My Da used talk about 1947.The snow never left croghan untill mid june.
The home farm lane in north wexford was constantly blocked coinciding with the various snow storms and given the ditches at either side of that lane would be 5 or 6 feet high and 12 ft wide,those would have been serious drifts!

I presume thats near Brittas bay which is right on the coast aswell.

Trogdor

Deleted User wrote: »

Good stuff trogdor

My Da used talk about 1947.The snow never left croghan untill mid june.
The home farm lane in north wexford was constantly blocked coinciding with the various snow storms and given the ditches at either side of that lane would be 5 or 6 feet high and 12 ft wide,those would have been serious drifts!

I presume thats near Brittas bay which is right on the coast aswell.

Mid-June, wow! The pictures are actually near Brittas, Co. Dublin just over the border in North-West Wicklow.

John Mason

My granny is the same about snow except she said it was there until May. She was from clonegal on carlow/Wexford/Wicklow border:D

nacho libre

Paddy.1 wrote: »

just a pity we didn't exist in them days but there ya go. Cool pics.

It's also a pity we haven't nailed time travel yet.