School: Killoscully, Newport (roll number 12029)
- Location:
- Killoscully, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Mrs. Julia Bourke
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- (continued from previous page)with some workmen were in Glown that day saving hay. They ran into the house & were sitting in the kitchen. Before long the river Mulcair overflowed its banks & was lapping against the windows. The water poured in the door & they had to go upstairs. They said the whole house shook with the thunder. They thought they would not see home again (and my father was not a man who was easily frightened especially of thunder and lighning). Torrents of water poured down from the mountain side and carried off everything that lay in it's way , hay , cars, tubs, cattle , sheep. A dairy owned by Wm. Clifford (Seain) was knocked and eight firkins of butter swept away in the flood.
- In the year 1888 - May 9th - the heaviest fall within the memory of the old people. All the valleys were filled & houses were completely covered.
Great loss of cattle sheep , poultry and birds died in great numbers.
