School: Newtown, Kells (roll number 5053)
- Location:
- Newtown (Shea), Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: (name not given)
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- (continued from previous page)sitting at the fire.
A Christian Brother was killed by a tree on the Ballybough road near Kilkenny in the year 1935.
His name was Brother O Byrne.
The big fall of snow in 1917 lasted for about a month or so and the people in Kells could not go outside the doors with the cold and wet.
A great many trees were knocked on the Kilkenny road in 1935 but no harm was done.(continues on next page)- Collector
- Máire Ní Annracán
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Kells, Co. Kilkenny
- Informant
- Mary Carroll
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 74
- Address
- Kells, Co. Kilkenny