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School: Baile Dháithí, Dunlavin

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Davidstown, Co. Wicklow
Teacher:
Róisín Bhreathnach
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0915, Page 086

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    to pray, beseeching God to cease the storm.
    After a short time the wind ceased, and the people tried to settle their houses as quickly as they could, and gather up all the hay and corn they could find strewn about
    Some of the men were employed cutting the trees that lay across the road. Much havoc was caused by this particular storm Nothing like this storm has occurred since then, save the big snowstorm that came on February the 24th 1933, when many lives were lost as well
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. processes and phenomena
      1. severe weather (~1,727)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Seamus Rogers
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Donard, Co. Wicklow
    Informant
    Patrick Rogers
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    c. 50
    Address
    Donard, Co. Wicklow