School: Ballinvally (B.) (roll number 931)
- Location:
- Ballinvally, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: T. Healy
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0723, Page 129
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- (continued from previous page)shoulder. That was the biggest storm in the last half century. .
- The storm of 1903 was one of the worst ever seen. It started around the end of February in that year. It was a wind storm. It blew down nearly half the tress of Clonyn. The roads were blocked for many days with fallen trees. It blew down cocks of hay and stacks of oats. My father says that it lifted a shed in his yard and it dropped it at the end of the garden about two hundred yards away.I myself remember the big snowstorm of 1933. It was a very heavy(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Ernie Lenihan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Delvin, Co. Westmeath
- Informant
- Thomas Lenihan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Delvin, Co. Westmeath
