School: Kilmacanogue, Bray
- Location:
- Kilmacanoge, Co. Wicklow
- Teacher: Caitlín Ní Chuinneáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0913, Page 083
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- (continued from previous page)tried to put it out but it was all in vain. He tried to bring her out of the blazing house but he could not. He got out of the blaze himself. Some of the out side houses were also burned. About two years after the man went to America.In 1847 a great fever spread over the country. The fever was known as "Chaleoia". [?] It spread out after the famine. The cause of it was hunger and badluck of the previous year.In 1932 there was a snow-storm. The snow was about four foot deep There was a lot of sheep and cattle lost. All the traffic was held up on the mountains the snow was six feet deep and a lot of people had very little to eat.
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