School: Clún na Gaoithe (roll number 8740)
- Location:
- Cloongee, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Héaráin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0125, Page 337
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Storms and Gales
This storm was in the year 1888 and in the month of June. One still/dead hot day about at nine o'clock the people saw a queer darkness come in the sky. The storm came on at twelve o'clock and lasted till about one. In a field where were cattle were grazing a flash of lightning struck a cow and killed her. Then it dug a hole in a ridge of potatoes as if it were ploughed. There were men working in a field when the thunder came on. It was also raining heavily and they went for shelter. The flash of lightning struck the ground a few feet from one man. He was not injured but he got a great shock.
There was another thunder-storm about the year 1896. It started about five o'clock on an evening in the month of March and it lasted three quarters of an hour. It knocked a gable of a house in bulmore and it also knocked a barn and killed a bullock.
Snow Storm
It happened in the year 1915. The snow was as high as the ditches. People coming from tw town had to walk on top of the ditches.
