School: Gowran (C.) (roll number 15366)

Location:
Gowran, Co. Kilkenny
Teacher:
Máiréad Ní Chuinn
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  1. 9-3-38 Severe Weather
    Thirty five years ago there was a great storm but it did not do any damage it only knocked down a good many trees and they fell across the road and stopped cars.
    In nintheen hundred and fourteen there were vere heavy snow. It was very deep in parts.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. processes and phenomena
      1. severe weather (~1,727)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Agnes Murphy
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Bodal, Co. Kilkenny
    Informant
    Jim Lennon
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    56
    Address
    Ballynaboley, Co. Kilkenny
  2. The twenty forth of January ninteen seventeen there was a big snow. It was three feet high on the road & in places where it drifted it was about five or six feet high. In ninteen thirty two the places were flooded about twenty yards long, and two feet deep.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. processes and phenomena
      1. severe weather (~1,727)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Peggy Murphy
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Bodal, Co. Kilkenny
    Informant
    Martin Brennan
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    60
    Address
    Gowran, Co. Kilkenny