School: Lankill (roll number 16904)
- Location:
- Lankill, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Seán Ó Cibhil
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- (continued from previous page)air so about twelve men went and burrowed through the snow with their shovels. When Sunday came the snow the snow had never melted a bit because it was freezing every day, and the people had to walk on the snow that was sixteen feet high. They were walking over walls and everything. The people suffered until the snow thawed away. They were nearly starved and some was so bad that they had to walk into town and carry home their goods.
There were losses to farmers in the mountains, because plenty farmers lost about hundred sheep. Some of the sheep lived as long as three weeks under the snow. They eat whatever grass was under them in the snow, and then began to eat their own wool. During the snow-storm men used to be(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Eileen King
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Lanmore, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Michael Kerrigan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Knappagh Beg, Co. Mayo
