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   is about 1 mile from the village of Gurteen.
   Collected by: Jack Benson
   Heard from his father James Benson
   Aged 50 years Mount Irwin

   

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2. Severe Weather

   

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   In the year 1914 there was a heavy snow storm in Killaville. There were big snow drifts on the land and some sheep were snowed around. The owner did not know where to find the sheep but he expected to find them dead when the snow-drifts would be over. One day as he was going through the field examining the snow drifts he found a little hold in the snow. To his great surprise he afound all his sheep alive after a period of 3 weeks. They had nothing to eat but a little bit of grass that was inside in the little house they had made. Collected by: Nora Rafferty Heard from her mother Aged 40 year Mary Rafferty Ballintrufane

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   Topics

   1. processes and phenomena
      1. severe weather (~1,727)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Nora Rafferty

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Ballintrofaun, Co. Sligo

   Informant

   Mary Rafferty

   Relation

   Parent

   Gender

   Female

   Age

   40

   Address

   Ballintrofaun, Co. Sligo