School: Laragh
- Location:
- Laragh, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: M. Ní Riain
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- Fifty years ago there was a snowstorm so severe that one could walk across the country without being able to distinguish the ditches from the fields. Numbers of people, cattle and sheep were lost.There was a big wind one hundred years ago, so strong that it knocked all the trees in the wood near Kingscourt, and blocked all the roads.
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- Informant
- Hugh Farrelly
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 55
- Address
- Collops, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Matt Muldoon
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 45
- Address
- Corrycholman, Co. Cavan