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1. Storms (continued)

   

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   out in the sea. It killed cattle and people. There was a beggar woman from the North in Tom McNulty's house barrowear. Ballycastle, Co. Mayo. She asked if they had a reaping hook and they gave it to her. She put it in the fire and left it there and she put the coulter of the plough in the doon and she told them not to go out and that nothing would be stirred and nothing was stirred. On the 25th of December in the year 1862 eight fishermen went out fishing. When they were returning home form fishing, the wind rose into big waves. When they were near land the seas rose

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2. The Drowning at Down Patrick

   

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   On the 25th of December in the year 1862 eight fishermen went out fishing. When they were returning home from fishing, the wind rose into big waves. When they were near land the seas rose

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