1. dúchas.ie
  2. The Schools' Collection
  3. Druim Mór

School: Druim Mór (roll number 16349)

Location:
Dromore, Co. Donegal
Teacher:
John Noonan
Browse
Mode:
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1097, Page 162

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1097, Page 162

Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.

See copyright details.

Download

Open data

Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

  1. XML School: Druim Mór
  2. XML Page 162
  3. XML “The Big Snow”

Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.

On this page

  1. The Big Snow (continued)

    Share Share Post
    (continued from previous page)
    on the snow and searched about where they thought the byre was. When they found the rigging they took off a scolb and some thatch and they saw the cattle below, warm and comfortable, chewing their cud. Then they searched for and found the haystack and fed the cattle through the hole in the fool until the snow had melted, enough to get a way cleared in by the door. He said too that the only way they could get water was by melting the snow.
    Story told by Patk. McFadden, Ballinaman, Killygordon.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. processes and phenomena
      1. frost and snow (~299)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    John Noonan
    Gender
    Male
    Occupation
    Múinteoir
    Informant
    Patrick Mc Fadden
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Ballynaman, Co. Donegal