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School: Caisleán hAicéid

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Castlehacket, Co. Galway
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S. Ó Floinn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0025, Page 0139

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  1. A Draught

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    About the year 1928 a terrible draught came. It lasted for about a month an the ground got very hard and the grass was burnt up.
    People had to go ten or eleven miles for water for animals as well as for their own use. Thaddy Higgins, Kilcurriff, Corofin, had to go nine miles to Dough Coona with two barrels every day for water. Dough Cona is a field about five miles from Headford.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. weather-lore (~6,442)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Annie O' Dowde
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Cluidrevagh, Co. Galway
    Informant
    Thomas Burke
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    43
    Address
    Cluidrevagh, Co. Galway