School: Killeen, Granard (roll number 13752)
- Location:
- Killeen, Co. Longford
- Teacher: S. Ó Duibhgeanáin
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0765, Page 0487
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Killeen, Granard
- XML Page 0487
- XML “Severe Weather”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- (continued from previous page)487
over but their joy was soon turned into sadness for their crops were destroyed with the rain and there were pools of water in the fields and on the roads.
The last hard snowstorm we had was in February 1933 it began to snow on a Thursday evening and it continued snowing until Saturday and the snow was six feet deep.
The train that was on its route from Dublin to Cavan was blocked near Castlepollard and it could not travel with the snow.
The Granard Pioneer bus going from Longford to Cavan was blocked with the snow at Howden's cross road's Ballinascrow and it had to remain there for 4 days until the road from Granard to Ballinalee was cleared.
This is home information M. Fagan
- Collector
- M. Fagan
- Gender
- Unknown
