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School: Béal Átha Feorainne (C.) (roll number 15653)

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Ballyforan, Co. Roscommon
Teacher:
Áine Bean Uí Chuillin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0271C, Page 07_029

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    The greatest snowstorm that I heard of was in 1917 and it lasted for three weeks and it was six feet deep and a lot of people lost their sheep and lambs and the children could not go to school for two weeks.
    There was also a great rainfall thirty years ago and the bogs moved and some people were lost also houses. May people were going to see the moving bogs.
    There was a woman caught with the bogs by the name of Mrs Mc Donnell. The bogs moved
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. processes and phenomena
      1. severe weather (~1,727)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Rosy Mitchell
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Derreen, Co. Galway