School: Imleach Neachtain (roll number 11983)
- Location:
- Emlaghnaghtan, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Ml. Ó Casaide
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- (continued from previous page)In the same year the hay could not be saved atal and rotted on the ground. On that acount nearly all our cattle died with pure hunger and left us poor and heart-broken for many a long year.
I often heard my grandfather, Eward McGettrick, say that about the year 1833 there was a snow-fall in the beginning of January that lasted seven weeks. There were several people lost during that snow-storm. We lost six sheep, a horse and a "yearling" calf. In 1917 there was such a snow-storm that the snow had to be cut with hay knives to clean the roads to get to the town. it was very hard to get to the grave-yards. The coffins had to be carried on the shoulders of young men in some cases five or six miles. The people had to shovel the snow to make(continues on next page)
- Collector
- May Mc Gettrick
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Rathdoony Beg, Co. Sligo
- Informant
- John Mc Gettrick
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 64
- Address
- Rathdoony Beg, Co. Sligo
