School: Baile Idir Dhá Abhainn (roll number 13196)
- Location:
- Riverstown, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Ml. Mac Lochlainn
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0180, Page 009
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Baile Idir Dhá Abhainn
- XML Page 009
- XML “Local Happenings”
- XML “Severe Weather”
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
- (continued from previous page)by the R.I.C for driving cattle off the farm. There is a monument erected there now in his memory.
- In the year 1916 there was a very heavy snowstorm around the village of Riverstown. It lasted three days and the people could not get out of their houses. During one of these days there was a funeral and the people had to go in front of it to clear away the snow.
It was a very bad snowstorm as sledges had to be brought into use. In the parish of Riverstown the "Big Wind" of 1829 did not do much harm. Sheep and cattle were lost and trees were felled causing much damage as carts and traps could not pass.
In the year 1930 there was a(continues on next page) - Collector
- Mona Mc Mahon
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Riverstown, Co. Sligo
