School: Coill Chláir (roll number 14276)
- Location:
- Kilclare, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Treasa Ní Oibeacáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0211, Page 178
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You are not logged in, but you are welcome to contribute a transcription anonymously. In this case, your IP address will be stored in the interest of quality control.By clicking the save button you agree that your contribution will be available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License and that a link to dúchas.ie is sufficient as attribution. - In January 1839 there was a great wind which blew a bridge and houses down and uprooted trees in Sheafield. It blew the hay out of my townland as far as Newbrook, a distance of one mile.
- A great snow storm raged in eighteen hundred and fifty. Peter Dunne of Sheafield was lost in a drift. He was nearly dead when found.
- In the year eighteen eighty two a very severe storm occurred in our district. It lasted one day and caused extensive damage. The roof was swept off John Floyd's dwelling house. About a half a rick of hay was blown out of John Beirne's garden (Garvagh). Two trees were knocked at James Horan's, Scrabagh.
- Seventy years ago a flood arose in our locality. Three links of turf(continues on next page)
