School: Cill a' Lachtáin
- Location:
- Killallaghtan, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Seosamh Ó hAllmhuráin
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There was a great storm in the year of 1902. It did a lot of damage to all the woods around the place. But there was one very big wood in Castlefrench which was two miles in length and one in breath. When the storm came it knocked a path of the trees from end to end of the wood and it was about twenty yards wide.
Kitty Kilgannon.
- Collector
- Kitty Kilgannon
- Gender
- Female
- I heard from my father about a snowstorm that was on the 11th of February about the year 1895. The snow drifted in heaps by the ditches so that you could walk from my house down to Aeon river across the ditches and hedges on top of the heaps of snow. Hundreds of sheep got covered and some of them were never found. For three weeks road traffic was of great difficulty. The people had to bring their provision on their backs. The snow lasted six weeks.
Maudie Fahey.
