School: Druim Mór (roll number 16349)

Location:
Dromore, Co. Donegal
Teacher:
John Noonan
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  1. The Big Snow
    There used to be great fairs in Killygordon long ago the biggest you'd have seen anywhere. There was a fair every quarter, one was on the 3rd March.
    I don't know what days the others were but it was about same time each quarter.
    The reason I 'mind' the 3rd March was because it was the day of the "big Snow"
    I heard about it from Nancy Murray who was buried 30 years ago. She was then about 90 years of age. The "Big Snow" happened when she was a girl. It came from the East a fine snow like flour and any people who had their doors facing the East had their kitchens covered with snow through the keyholes. The houses were covered in places to the rigging where it happened to be in the drift. But you know most of the houses in those days were very low
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    Topics
    1. processes and phenomena
      1. frost and snow (~299)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    John Noonan
    Gender
    Male
    Occupation
    Múinteoir
    Informant
    Ellen Deeny
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    Over 90
    Address
    Dromore, Co. Donegal
    Informant
    Patrick Mc Fadden
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Ballynaman, Co. Donegal