School: Gowran (C.) (roll number 15366)
- Location:
- Gowran, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Máiréad Ní Chuinn
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- 16-3-38 Severe Weather
In the spring in nineteen hundred & fifteen there was a great snow fall in Ireland. It was about six feet deep. One could not travel even to neighbours without piling the snow up first & cleaning the roadways. Gangs of men got together & with picks & shovels made paths from one village to another. It was about two months before the last of the snow melted.
- Collector
- Hannah Denieffe
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Gowran, Co. Kilkenny
- Informant
- Mrs Rudkins
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 80
- Address
- Gowran, Co. Kilkenny
- Severe Weather
There was severe weather around Kilkenny about eighty yrs ago. There was a thunder storm and a heavy rain fall. There were many roofs blown away there was floods also & the people had to live up stairs until the floods went away. There were a lot of snow & it was six feet high.
