School: Clongeen (roll number 4652)
- Location:
- Clongeen, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Brian Ó Broin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0882, Page 247
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- In the year 1915 the greatest fall of snow that ever fell fell in that year. It was in the month of January and about eight feet of snow fell.
On the 24th of June 1935 the greatest thunder storm that was ever heard in Ireland was heard in that month. It was the heaviest that was heard for fifty years. It did a lot of damage through the country it knocked down trees and killed two people in the north of Ireland. It started at eight o'clock in the evening and it lasted until four o'clock in the morning. Also with it heavy rain fell.
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- T. Fitzgerald
- Address
- Haresmead, Co. Wexford
