School: Drummond
- Location:
- Drummin, Co. Carlow
- Teacher: P. Ó Murchadha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0903, Page 238
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- In the end of January 1917 there was a great snowfall. It snowed all night and part of the next day.
Before it snowed it was very cold and the wind was blowing from the north. There were many signs of the snowfall.
The roads were blocked and the snow was as high as the ditches. Paths were made in the snow for the people to travel to mass or to town.
The wind was blowing very strongly and it drove the snow in under the snow in the houses and in some places it drifted as high as the houses.
There were many sheep lost and after a month when the snow was thawed they were got around the fences.
No one around the locality was lost but in other places many lives were lost.
- Collector
- Mary Murphy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Bauck, Co. Carlow
- Informant
- Patrick Murphy
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 60
- Address
- Bauck, Co. Carlow
