School: Barnaran, Rathangan (roll number 10454)

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1. An Old School

   

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   There was an old school beside the Showbridge at Allenwood Robertstown, where there is a forge now. About the year eighteen hundred and ninty the school was in its last year. The teachers' names were Mr Blake and Mrs Blake. The teachers were paid by the Government. The children were thought Arithmetic, English, History, and Geography.

   

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2. A Snow-Storm

   

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   In February ninteen thirty three there was a great snow storm. It started to snow on a Thursday evening and continued till Saturday. By Saturday every place was covered with snow as high as mountains. Cattle and sheep were lost. In one place a man named James Walshe Allenwood was looking for his sheep and he saw a hole in a big pile of snow. He walked towards it thinking his sheep were there, when suddenly he found himself slipping down a chimney.

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   Topics

   1. objects
      1. man-made structures
         1. buildings
            1. schools (~4,094)
   2. processes and phenomena
      1. frost and snow (~299)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Máire Ní Giolla Phádruig

   Gender

   Female

   Age

   11

   Address

   Lullymore East, Co. Kildare