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School: Baile Locha Riabhach (Clochar)

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Loughrea, Co. Galway
Teacher:
An tSr Adrian
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0060, Page 0321

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    In the eighteenth century there were many very bad storms, but the most severe storm was the storm in 1839. It knocked the roofs off the houses, it knocked the walls and trees, it blew the animals that were in the fields around. It even rose some of them up in the air, and they fell down with a bump to the ground and were killed.
    In blew the sea so much that it even blew it into this district and the towns near it and every place was
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    Topics
    1. processes and phenomena
      1. severe weather (~1,727)
    Language
    English
    Informant
    Mr Killoran
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    63
    Address
    Loughrea, Co. Galway