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School: Naomh Colmcille (roll number 16047)

Location:
Aghamore, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Aindrias Mac Aodhagáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0112, Page 287

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  1. Local Folklore - Severe Weather

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    About the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty eight, in the month of June there was a terrible storm. It rose all of a sudden. It was on for about a few hours.
    There was a roof of a house in the district blown off by this wind. The man of the house was gone when the house was gone. When the storm arose. Half the roof was blown way before any help came.
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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
    Teresa Folliard
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Cartron, Co. Mayo
    Informant
    Mrs B. Waldron
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Cartron, Co. Mayo