School: Log na nGall (roll number 15663)
- Location:
- Lugnagall, Co. Sligo
- Teachers: Tomás Ó Hodhráin Bean Uí Hodhráin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0157, Page 239
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- About three years ago there was a heavy snowfall. It's depth was about four feet, and the traffic was stopped for about a week. It was in drifts here and there throughout the fields and roads. The birds and animals had no food because the trees and fields were all covered with snow. The farmers found the sheep hard to count and they had to act ivy and scatter it along the fields for them to eat.Schools were closed and the children were very glad. Each night it freezed and that left the now longer to thaw.
- On the 10th June 1891 when the people were cutting turf on Lislahelly mountain a great thunderstorm broke out. All the people fled for shelter to a cave or bark in the rock. A man named John Carroll, and his neighbour were flying for shelter when a(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Maire Devins
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Lugnagall, Co. Sligo
- Informant
- John Devins
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 64
- Address
- Lugnagall, Co. Sligo
