School: Gowran (C.) (roll number 15366)
- Location:
- Gowran, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Máiréad Ní Chuinn
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- 9-3-38 Severe Weather
Thirty five years ago there was a great storm but it did not do any damage it only knocked down a good many trees and they fell across the road and stopped cars.
In nintheen hundred and fourteen there were vere heavy snow. It was very deep in parts.
- The twenty forth of January ninteen seventeen there was a big snow. It was three feet high on the road & in places where it drifted it was about five or six feet high. In ninteen thirty two the places were flooded about twenty yards long, and two feet deep.
- Collector
- Peggy Murphy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Bodal, Co. Kilkenny
- Informant
- Martin Brennan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 60
- Address
- Gowran, Co. Kilkenny
