School: Kilmacanogue, Bray
- Location:
- Kilmacanoge, Co. Wicklow
- Teacher: Caitlín Ní Chuinneáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0913, Page 049
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- (continued from previous page)mountains at the end of June. A lot of stock lost. People were snowed up, they had no food. The snow was six feet in depth.
- Heavy snowAbout forty years ago, there was a terrible snowstorm. The snow was two or three feet deep and in the drifts it was twenty feet. No ditches were to be seen, they were all covered. People could not go out.
- Hedge schoolsThere was a hedge school in Roundwood, a man named Mr. Leeson taught in it. The subjects he taught were, English, Arithmetic, and History. The hedge school was under a sheltered ditch.
- ThatchersJames Molloy of Newtown was a thatcher. He thatched every house in the neighbourhood of Newtown. He is dead ten years.William McCarthy of Roundwood was also a thatcher. He thatched all his neighbour's houses. He was very old.
- Lime kilnsIn Bushypark there is a lime kiln. It has not been used for the past thirty years.
- ForgesStephen Toole of Calary had a forge. He made gates and spades and he mended ploughs for(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Lily Byrne
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 12
- Address
- Kilmacanoge, Co. Wicklow
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- Mrs Byrne
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Kilmacanoge, Co. Wicklow
