School: Ballyuskill (B.), Ballyragget

Location:
Ballyoskill, Co. Kilkenny
Teacher:
F. Mac Cárthaigh
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    There was a Snow storm in 1933. It lasted for three days. It did alot of harm. It knocked sheds and took slates off houses. It knocked trees. There was a lot lightning it burned trees and Hay. The were drifts of snow everywhere. Motors and trains were stopped.
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  2. About seventy two years ago there was a snow storm in Ballyouskill it was in the month of March in the year 1866. It lasted for three weeks. There was frost along with it. Every sup of was frozen.
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    Topics
    1. processes and phenomena
      1. severe weather (~1,727)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Edward Glennon
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Ballyoskill, Co. Kilkenny
    Informant
    John Glennon
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Ballyoskill, Co. Kilkenny
  3. About fifty years ago there was a thunder storm and lightning it knocked a house and burned and hay and straw and knocked trees
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