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School: Errew G.N.S. (roll number 13261)

Location:
Errew, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Brígid Nic Eoin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0090E, Page 05_014

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    In 1917 there was a great snow storm in the middle of January. It lasted three days and the snow was so dry and hard that the wind blew it and made great heaps of it to a height of six or eight feet. The fields and roads were impassible. Men had to go out with their shovels and stay there all day making passages It began to freeze then and it
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