School: Listellick, Tráighlí
- Location:
- Listellick North, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Domhnall Ó Súilleabháin
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- Tom Healy
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 85
- Address
- Listellick North, Co. Kerry
- About the year 1875 there was a very heavy fall of snow! The day before the snow, was very cold and black. Some of the snow came down the chimneys and in the key holes. The snow was so deep that it covered the smaller dwelling houses. When people got up in the morning they did not know the night from the day as it had the windows covered. Some people did not get up out of their beds for a night and a day. People expected that when it would that that it would drown the land. Many sheep were smothered by it. It smothered a man by the name of Tom Flaherty from Abbeydovney. He was buried in Rath (Rai) outside Tralee
