School: Cill Ábhaill
- Location:
- Killavil, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Seán Ó Conláin
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- Once upon a time there was a man who lived in Cloontia. His name was Jimmy Geeves. The night of the big wind he was afraid his house would fall. He had to go on a message and he took his mother and tied her to a bush with a hemp rope & when he returned the bush and his mother was swept way and never seen from that day to this.
Heard from: Kathleen Cryan
Heard from her father
Age 60 years John P. Cryan
- Collector
- Kathleen Cryan
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- John P. Cryan
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 60
- In the year of 1917 there was a memorable snow storm. There was snow drift 10 feet high in some places on the roads which blocked all traffic. In the case of a funeral 30 or 40 men could be seen shoveling a path through those snow-drifts on the road leading to the grave-yard. People who had to go to the shop had to clean a path before hand. The storm lasted 3 weeks. There were many accidents. The graveyard which people had to travel with the funeral was Mount Irwin. It(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Jack Benson
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Mountirvine, Co. Sligo
- Informant
- James Benson
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Mountirvine, Co. Sligo
