School: Drom Dhá Liag (B.) (roll number 12229)
- Location:
- Drimoleague, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Domhnall Ó Ciardha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0301, Page 094
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- The Great Snow which fell in Ireland in 1867 was the heaviest for half a century. The severe cold killed both people and animals.
There was a farmer living near Drimoleague Co. Cork who kept thirty or forty sheep. About that time he had them grazing in a field about three or four hundred yards from his house. He thought it would only be a light fall of snow. But when it got thicker he set out towards the sheep to drive them home.
He found them in a corner of the field. He made an attempt to push them out of the corner but they got frightened of the large flakes of snow and would not leave it on any account. In the end he tried to leave it himself but the snow had risen to such a height, that he could not leave it.
He lay down in the corner and the breath of the sheep thawed away the snow and kept him warm. He remained there for three or four days because the snow remained on the ground.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Sean O' Brien
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Dromdaleague, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Mr Denis O' Brien
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Dromdaleague, Co. Cork
