School: Tigh Molaga (C.) (roll number 12457)
- Location:
- Timoleague, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Shithigh
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- My father said that he heard old Den Leary - Larry's father of Carhue, a townland west of the village, saying the snow started in the evening, on a very calm day - it came very mild at first, but it thickened.
Beamish's (of Lettercolm but landlord of Carhue) cattle were lost in the snow. The tenants found them all except one - a bullock. About 3 weeks afterwards they saw his breath coming through the snow - they dug round it - and they found him standing near a sgeach or bush and he had all the bush clipped - that was his food.
Mrs. Sweeney's (of Dunworley) grandfather a Brickley man - was lost in the snow near Johnson's.
