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School: Naomh Feichín, Cros (roll number 7075)

Location:
Cross, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
M. Mac Niocail
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0102, Page 370

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    During the Winter of eighteen seventy eight there was a great frost. The Corrib was frozen and the people brought turf from Derries to Billypark. It is also stated that Lake View below Ballinrobe was frozen and that a gentleman named Walshe rode across it in his coach drawn by a pair of horses.
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    A great storm occured in January eighteen hundred and thirty nine and it is called, "The night of the Big Wind. Trees were knocked down and the roof were blown off the houses. Cattle and
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