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School: Béal Átha Feorainne (C.) (roll number 15653)

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Ballyforan, Co. Roscommon
Teacher:
Áine Bean Uí Chuillin
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    About twenty years ago there was a bog in Killmore four miles from the town of Ballygar in Co Galway which moved with a flood and did a lot of harm.
    It knocked house trees and houses. In the year 1933 we had a great snow-storm, it lasted for a week or more. The people could not travel because their cars got snow bound and they had to stay in the nearest town or village until the snow
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    Topics
    1. processes and phenomena
      1. severe weather (~1,727)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Muriel Donohoe
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Ballyforan, Co. Roscommon