School: Clodiagh, Inistioge
- Location:
- Inistioge, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Dónall Ó Donnchadha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0847, Page 444
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- (continued from previous page)a grape on it till that year because the weather was too cold. It was so warm that year that a great crop of grapes grew on it and they all ripened.
Severe Weather
“In the year 1890 a great drought came all over the Co. Kilkenny and other places too.”
In the year 1890 a great drought came all over the Co. Kilkenny and other places too. People had to go long distances for spring water. They had to go miles with water to save cattle from dying with the drought, you would hear cattle crying nearly a mile away. A lot of cattle were lost. - Collector
- Leonard Hayden
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Clodiagh, Co. Kilkenny
