School: Dún Bhéacháin (Dunbeacon) (roll number 15552)
- Location:
- Dunbeacon, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Tomás Ó Foghlú
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0289, Page 135
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- A long time ago so long that my Grandmother scarcely remembers it a great snow fell in this district. She was living in Kilcrohane and going to school then.
The morning of the snow she had to go on a message to a house which was ten miles from her home. She had to walk all the way and although she was barefooted and the snow was up to her hips she never felt cold.
That week a woman died in Kilcrohane and after waking her for a week the men had to take her on their shoulders to the graveyard five miles away - as no horse could travel in the snow.
During that snowstorm the birds all died by the fences and the people gathered them in buckets as it was no surprise to find fifteen or twenty birds dead in one heap.
- Collector
- Mary O' Sullivan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Shantullig North, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Mrs Mary Moynihan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 75
- Address
- Shantullig North, Co. Cork
