School: Lankill (roll number 16904)
- Location:
- Lankill, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Seán Ó Cibhil
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0137F, Page 19_069
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- The snow of 1917
There was a great fall of snow on the twenty fourth of January in the year 1917. It started snowing on a Thursday evening and continued snowing until Sunday evening. In somw places there were heaps of snow nearly twenty feet high. The roads was blocked up in such a way that nothing could travel but nearly every one went to town or mass walking on top of walls and any place that there wasn't much snow they would walk in that place
There were numbers of men employed in the roads and there were numbers of sheep lost in the snow but some escaped.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Kitty Duffy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Lanmore, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Mary Berry
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Lanmore, Co. Mayo
