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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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    7- 3-'38
    Severe Weather.
    About eight yrs ago there was a great fall of snow.
    There was also a terrible storm. It was snowing for nearly a week, and it was drifted into heaps of ten or twelve feet high.
    Traffic was stopped, and there was a great number of cars stuck in the snow. Great number of sheep (sheep) and some cattle were lost. There was also a man lost.
    This man was from Ballygar County Galway. It was not thawed for three weeks.
    Twenty-years ago there
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. processes and phenomena
      1. severe weather (~1,727)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Annie Kearney
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Ballyforan, Co. Roscommon
    Informant
    Mr James Beattie
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Roscommon, Co. Roscommon