School: Tolerton, Ballylickmoyler (roll number 11321)

Location:: Towlerton, Co. Laois
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0838, Page 267

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There was a house burned in Killeshin. The owner of this house was Martin Doran. This is the way it was burned. They went to bed at night and they forgot to quench the lamp. It was on the table beside the window. Then the curtain took fire and the house was burned. It happened in the spring on the second day of March in the year eighteen ninty eight

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There was a big storm of snow in nineteen and thirty two. It was in February about the fifteenth. During the big wind of eighteen thirty nine roofs were blown off houses and houses were thrown down by the
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Topics
1. processes and phenomena
  severe weather (~1,727)
Language

English
Collector
Thomas Burke
Gender

Male
Address

Ardateggle, Co. Laois