School: Listellick, Tráighlí

Location:
Listellick North, Co. Kerry
Teacher:
Domhnall Ó Súilleabháin
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  1. About 89 years ago there was a great fall of snow. It was away higher than the fences. People could not go to the well for water so they had to bring in the snow and melt it down.
    Michael Egan died in Tralee. His funeral was going from Tralee to Abbeydooney. Large crowds of men from Abbeydooney came with shovels and cleared a passage on the road to enable people to bring the coffin to Abbeydooney
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    Topics
    1. processes and phenomena
      1. frost and snow (~299)
    Language
    English
    Informant
    Ned Fitzgerald
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    60
    Address
    Buntalloon, Co. Kerry