School: Donore (roll number 6668)
- Location:
- Donore, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Maighréad Nic Eóin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0682, Page 023
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- About forty-five years ago there was a long period of frost. It lasted for nine weeks and there was black frost every night. The River Boyne was frozen over from 'curly hole' down to Drogheda. The ice was very thick and numbers of people were skating on it. No rain fell for the nine weeks.
- Q. The name of a fish, the sound of a a bell, Carries a weight and what does it spell?
A. Cod-ding-ton. (Coddington an old family name in Oldbridge.) - Collector
- Peggie Mc Guinness
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mrs Katie Brien
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 70
- Address
- Sheephouse, Co. Meath
