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School: Killashandra

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Killashandra, Co. Cavan
Teacher:
P. Ó Leannáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0982, Page 083

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  1. Severe Weather (continued)

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    There was a fierce thunder storm in Killeshandra and it killed cows and horses and destroyed potatoes and other crops.
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    Thomas Reilly
    Killeshandra
    Gerald Reilly
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  2. Severe Weather

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    1. Tom Foster told me that his father told him that there was a terrible storm of high wind 99 years ago, that it lifted the thatch off houses and blew the fires into stacks of turf in the bogs and had blew lighted turf flying through the country.
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    Topics
    1. processes and phenomena
      1. severe weather (~1,727)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Phil Reilly
    Gender
    Male
    Informant
    Tom Foster
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Killashandra, Co. Cavan