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School: Drom Mór (C.), Malla (roll number 13780)

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Dromore, Co. Cork
Teacher:
M. Uí Uallaighe
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0369D, Page 03_007

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    There was a great storm in 1918 it felled trees and hay sheds. It blew the roofs off houses and blew stacks of corn down the hills. Before the storm, the sky was dark and cloudy and torrents of rain fell. The storm was on the 20th of August 1918. No lives were lost in the storm
    In 1845 a year before the famine there was a terrible snowstorm and it did a lot of harm, the people had to dig tunnels in the snow to get to potate pits. A number of cattle and sheep were buried and smothered in the snow and were never found until they were dead. "Sneachta Seodain[?] was
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    1. processes and phenomena
      1. severe weather (~1,727)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Kathleen O' Connell
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    Female