School: Lisdowney, Ballyragget
- Location:
- Lisdowney, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Bean Uí Mheachair
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0868, Page 114
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- In the year 1932 in the month of February the heaviest fall of snow to be remembered in Lisdowney district occurred. All the roads were stopped from traffic owing to the drifts which were ten feet deep and had to be cleared away with shovels. A great number of sheep were lost as they were smothered in the drifts. The snow lasted for three weeks and most of the small birds perished. The crows killed most of them and eat them as they had no other food.
- Collector
- Josie Carroll
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Lisdowney, Co. Kilkenny
- Informant
- Mr William Kelly
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Lisdowney, Co. Kilkenny
- The bird which is most familar to me is the robin. She builds her nest of moss and hair in a mossy bank. When she has it built, she lays five eggs and hatches them for three weeks. The young ones are fed until they are able to fly. A story is told of how she got her red breast. It is said that when our Lord was dying on the cross that a robin plucked a thorn from His head and a drop of blood fell on her breast.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Josie Carroll
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Lisdowney, Co. Kilkenny
- Informant
- Mrs Kelly
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Lisdowney, Co. Kilkenny
