School: Druim Mór (roll number 16349)
- Location:
- Dromore, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: John Noonan
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- (continued from previous page)who had their doors facing the East had their kitchens covered with snow through the keyhole. The houses were covered in places to the rigging where it happened to be in the "drift". But, you know, most of the houses in them days was very small, about 7 or 8 ft high altogether. Nancy said all the streams were covered over & they had to melt the snow in pots to get water. In one spot on the bourne that runs through Lismullaghduff, the sides are so steep and it was covered level with the snow that people were able to cross from one side to the other with horses and carts on the snow early in(continues on next page)
- Collector
- John Noonan
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Múinteoir
- Informant
- Patrick Mc Fadden
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballynaman, Co. Donegal