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School: Carnamoyle (roll number 7344)

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Carnamoyle, Co. Donegal
Teacher:
Hugh McKee Fleck
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1114, Page 40

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    There was a great storm in this district on Friday the 22nd December, in the year 1894. It started at nine o clock at night and it continued on and got worse. At four o'clock in the morning it began to cease. It stripped the roofs off houses and tumbled corn stacks and rooted out trees. There were no lives lost in this district.
    There was a great thunder-storm in this district about fifty years ago ; the lightning set fire to a corn stack. It started at one o clock in the afternoon and it lasted to five o clock. In October, 1934, there was heavy
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    Topics
    1. processes and phenomena
      1. severe weather (~1,727)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Teresa Doherty
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Eskaheen, Co. Donegal
    Informant
    James Doherty
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    60
    Address
    Eskaheen, Co. Donegal