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School: Baile Dháithí, Dunlavin

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Davidstown, Co. Wicklow
Teacher:
Róisín Bhreathnach
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0915, Page 070

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    of trees. Some fell across the road and it was impossible for traffic to pass.
    No people in the district went out till the storm was over, afraid they would be killed.
    There was heavy damage done in other places and a great number of lives lost.
    There was also a terrible thunder-storm, twenty-three or four years later.
    A cloud burst, and covered the whole mountain with froth and the roads four feet deep with water, and the people on the mountain, drawing home the turf were almost swept away.
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. processes and phenomena
      1. severe weather (~1,727)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Tony Rogers
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Donard, Co. Wicklow
    Informant
    Ellen Evans
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    c. 70
    Address
    Donard, Co. Wicklow