School: Cill Loiste (Killusty), Fíodh Árd (roll number 16111)

Location:
Killusty North, Co. Tipperary
Teacher:
Máire, Bean Uí Mheacháir
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  1. The year Nineteen Hundred and Nineteeen was one of the driest years we had for a long time, there was scarcely any rain from May day 'till December of that year. All the ponds where cattle used to get water were dried up. People had to cart water to cattle, and for household work in parts of the country, as far as eight miles. Where there were big numbers they had to be driven to the nearest river. A lot of cattle suffered from "murrin" and died, owing to not having water enough on the land.
    All the crops were very poor that year, corn was not worth cutting, and hay on limestone land was so burned that it could not be cut, it was so short.

    Pierce Buter (48)
    Tullow
    Killusty
    Fethard
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. processes and phenomena
      1. drought (~35)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Patrick Butler
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Tullow, Co. Tipperary
    Informant
    Pierce Butler
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    48
    Address
    Tullow, Co. Tipperary