School: Clodiagh, Inistioge
- Location:
- Inistioge, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Dónall Ó Donnchadha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0847, Page 442
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- (continued from previous page)who had an outfarm. He had seventeen cattle on it. When he went to see them the next morning he found them all killed with the lightning.
- There was a very heavy fall of snow in January 1918. It was the same height as the ditches along the roads. Where it drifted it was thirty feet in dept, and remained until the following August. Where it was the lowest it lasted two months. Some of the people could not get out of the houses, and they had to bring in the snow and let it melt, to make a road out. A great number of cattle and sheep were lost under the show and others died with the hunger. A lot of birds died with the hunger also and the crows used to kill blackbirds and eat them. Written by Elizabeth White, Cluen, Inistioge.In the same year a man had a pony and car in New Ross. He left the pony and car in New Ross and walked over(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Kathleen Lyng
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Clodiagh, Co. Kilkenny
