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   could walk across the ditches into the fields and would not no where they were going.

   

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2. Severe Weather

   

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   In the year 1933 there was a very severe snowstorm in this country. It started on Thursday 23rd February and it snowed all that night and all day on Friday and there were drifts of snow eight feet deep. All the hedges were covered with snow and a lot of stock were lost. People went around with long poles putting them into the snow trying to feed the sheep. No traffic could travel either. About thirty three years ago there was a very severe storm in this country. The roofs were blown off houses and trees were blown down. Hay ricks and straw ricks were blown miles away and roofs of sheds were found many miles away. The wind started at eleven o'clock in the night and it lasted about six hours. The roof of a shed the property of Mr. Edgehill, Ballycommon, Daingean, was blown off and it was blown so far it was never found. Nearly every road was blocked with fallen trees and all the trees were taken up from the roots. In a place called Clonearl, Daingean, the trees are yet to be seen since they were blown down thirty three years ago. I saw some of the trees myself when I was passing

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   Topics

   1. processes and phenomena
      1. severe weather (~1,727)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Thomas Scally

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   12

   Address

   Ballyteige Little, Co. Offaly

   Informant

   Joseph Scally

   Relation

   Relative (other than parent or grandparent)

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   52

   Address

   Ballyteige Little, Co. Offaly