School: Naomh Eoin, Béal Easa (roll number 14176)
- Location:
- Foxford, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Oide sa chlochar
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0125, Page 176
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“One night a woman was going to Knockmore with eggs. It let one rap of thunder and a flash of lightning...”
One night a woman was going to Knockmore with eggs. It let one rap of thunder and a flash of lightning and there was a smell with it. She went into a house. About a hundred yards away from the house a hundred sheep were killed with the lightning.
There was a flood and it lasted five weeks. A man had two acres of hay and he had it cocked. The flood covered the cocks. The man used to go out in a "cot" and try to save the hay.
The big wind came. It knocked houses and everything. A man brought out his wife and tied her to a bush and he went in for a blanket to put around her. When he came out the woman and the bush were gone with the wind.
- Collector
- Kathleen Hopkins
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Foxford, Co. Mayo