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School: Newtown, Kells (roll number 5053)

Location:
Newtown (Shea), Co. Kilkenny
Teacher:
(name not given)
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0858B, Page 16_019

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    in that year.
    The snow was seven feet high.
    About the year 1892 a big flood occurred.
    The teachers of Kells school were not able to attend school on account of the roads being flooded.
    There was a great thunder-storm and lightening about 1920. The lightening came down a chimney in a house in Thomastown and killed a little girl named Hale while she was
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. processes and phenomena
      1. severe weather (~1,727)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Máire Ní Annracán
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Kells, Co. Kilkenny
    Informant
    Mary Carroll
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    74
    Address
    Kells, Co. Kilkenny