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School: Dillonsbridge (roll number 8501)

Location:
Philpotstown, Co. Meath
Teacher:
A.B. Ní Chumhaill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0687, Page 074

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  1. Local Happenings

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    1. events
      1. hardship (~1,565)
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  2. Severe Weather

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    Heavy snowfalls.
    In February 1938 a heavy snowstorm came. It snowed all day. The blizzard travelled at 50-70 miles an hour. Roads were blocked, telephone wires were blown down, and trees fell. Sheep were lost, cattle too. Some of the hundreds of lost sheep were not recovered for a week where they had to dig down under the snowdrifts. People were marooned & aeroplanes brought food to Dunshaughlin.
    Drought-periods.
    About fifty year go there was a terrible drought. Stock died and all the springs went dry so that water had to be used very sparingly.
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