School: Cluain Abhann (roll number 16127)
- Location:
- Cloonown, Co. Roscommon
- Teachers: Seán Ó Riain Máirtín Ó Riain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0270, Page 128
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- (continued from previous page)CONTINUEDThe day following the storm the people were in sad state, as their turf and hay were blown away, their few cattle had no hay to eat, the people themselves had no fire and they almost famished of cold. This storm is said to impoverish a number of people in district and some of them never regained their loss. A very strange thing to say is that the storm in all its violence was unheard by one family in the district, this was the family of Curley but today no one connected in any way with this family lives.
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“In the year 1939 there was a great frost which lasted for six weeks. On this occassion the River Shannon was iced thickly.”
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- Lawrence Geoghegan
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- Boggan, Co. Roscommon
