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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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   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. próisis agus feiniméin
      1. doineann (~1,727)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Phil Reilly

   Gender

   Male

   Informant

   Tom Foster

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Cill na Seanrátha, Co. an Chabháin