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School: Carnamoyle (roll number 7344)

Location:
Carnamoyle, Co. Donegal
Teacher:
Hugh McKee Fleck
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1114, Page 38

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    On February 1938 there was a thunderstorm in this district. It started about twelve oclock and lasted till two or three oclock in the morning.
    It tumbled part of a house and damaged furniture.
    There was a rainstorm on October 1935 in this district. The water was out over the side of the stream near our house, and it swept every thing that was near the stream with it.
    On December 1906 there was a snowstorm in this district and it lasted two weeks. It was four feet deep in some places, and there were snowdrifts ten feet deep. The people could not get to
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. processes and phenomena
      1. severe weather (~1,727)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Patrick Redden
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Carnamoyle, Co. Donegal
    Informant
    Mrs Redden
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    46
    Address
    Carnamoyle, Co. Donegal