School: Cluainín (roll number 13231)
- Location:
- Cloneen, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Éamonn Ó Néill
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- I don't remember any big snow storm here, though I saw a few inches of snow. But I have heard the people of the village tell of a snow-storm about thirty years ago, where the drifts in some places were eleven feet, and twelve feet high on the road. While in other places, which were not sheltered there was only a foot or two.
A great many sheep were lost in the hills, and there was great hardship trying to get hay to the cattle, and also the poor people found it very hard to get fire-wood, and they got some trees, and boughs from the farmers near them.
It happened on the very night that the snow fell, that there was a newly married pair from Killusty were invited to the bride's(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Sarah Keane
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cloneen, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Miss Annie Noonan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 71
- Address
- Cloneen, Co. Tipperary
