School: Lankill (roll number 16904)

Location:
Lankill, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Seán Ó Cibhil
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    The snow was like flour. It was not like snow at all. When it was coming it came like a drizzle and then it heaped up against walls and banks. The people got it awfully hard during that time. They had to boil snow to make water for their tea. They were this way for a long time. When they came short of food they had to go to town. They were walking on the walls going to town and to Mass. They could not bring an ass or anything to town to carry their goods home, but they had to carry them in a white bag in the old custom of the people of the hills have.
    Many one earned it. Some people went astray and were gone for a few days, because they could not find their way with big hills of snow around them. Houses did not look like houses, but like
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    Topics
    1. processes and phenomena
      1. frost and snow (~299)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Eileen King
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Lanmore, Co. Mayo
    Informant
    Michael Kerrigan
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    50
    Address
    Knappagh Beg, Co. Mayo