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School: Ballystrang (roll number 15364)

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Ballystrang, Co. Donegal
Teacher:
Seosamh Ó Cuinn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1103, Page 98

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    In the year nineteen seventeen in April the eighth there was a big snow storm. It snowed for two days and two nights and at the end there was about five feet of snow on the ground. Many people were lost and a lot of sheep and young lambs were dead of hunger and cold
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. processes and phenomena
      1. severe weather (~1,727)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Rose Quinn
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Cark, Co. Donegal
    Informant
    Neil Browne
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Ballystrang, Co. Donegal