School: Scoil na mBráthar, Dúrlas Éile

Location:
Thurles, Co. Tipperary
Teacher:
Br. T. S. Ó Maoilchiaráin
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    About three of four years ago we had a very heavy snowfall. ...

    About three or four years ago we had a very heavy snowfall. When we got up in the morning there was about three feet of snow on the ground. When the snow had fallen it began to freeze and the snow became quite hard and we had to shovel it away from the door. In Thurles there were two or three waggons knocked off the road. When the train was coming into the Horse + Jockey it went off the track and the snow was so hard that the train traveled along it and fell ont to the track again
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    Once upon a time there were a man by the name of Denis Maher...

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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. weather-lore (~6,442)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Thomas Maher
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Goold's Cross, Co. Tipperary
    Informant
    Joe Moore
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Goold's Cross, Co. Tipperary