School: An Clochar, Cúil Mhaoile
- Location:
- Collooney, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: An tSr. Teresita
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0177, Page 064
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- (continued from previous page)This heavy snow lasted four or five weeks, after it was a forthnight on the ground frost came and made the snow so hard that it was like a road to walk on.
It was then the young people enjoyed themselves, skating and making snowmen. In some places the drifts of snow covered the hedges and the people were sometimes walking over the hedges.
If anyone died during this period the snow had to be shoveled off the roads in order to get the remains to the graveyard.
No snow came so heavily since, thank God and indeed we are not sorry.
