School: Ballinvally (B.) (roll number 931)

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1. A Great Storm (continued)

   

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   to travel as the snow would get into your eyes and you could not see. The snow piled up outside our window and it did not let in any light.

   

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2. A Great Storm

   

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   In 1903 there was a great storm. There was a wood in Clonyn and it was so thick that you could not look through it and after the storm there was not a tree to be seen standing. The roads were lined with fallen trees and no one could travel. The farmers suffered very much because their oats and hay were scattered about. Some of the thatched houses suffered very much also, The roofs were blown off the most of them. The galvanised sheds were blown great distances. There were very few lives lost. The snow-storm of

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   Topics

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

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Michael Fitzsimons

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Killadoughran, Co. Westmeath

   Informant

   Peter Fitzsimons

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Killadoughran, Co. Westmeath