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   died during the Snow Storm and the men had to make a path through the fields in order to reach the graveyard. They could not travel by road on account of the Snow.

   

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   In the year 1908 there was a very heavy snow storm in this district. The snow in some places reached a height of five feet. At Bennekerry Cross one could walk to the top of Browns Hill wall as the snow had drifted against it. People had to cut paths from their houses through drifts. Farmers lost a great number of sheep which huddled together in the shelter of hedges and the snow came there the heaviest. Dr Kidd of Tullow came to attend a man named Thomas Nixon at Bennekerry. He waited for a while and put his pony in the stable thinking it would only be a shower but it the morning it was snowing still heavier My

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   Topics

   1. processes and phenomena
      1. severe weather (~1,727)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Tommy Byrne

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Grangeford, Co. Carlow

   Informant

   Mrs Neill

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Bennekerry, Co. Carlow