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School: Glassalts (roll number 1239)

Location:
Glasalt or Treanfasy, Co. Donegal
Teacher:
M. P. Ó Dochartaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1116, Page 160

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    and one. It lasted for a whole night. There was a house over in Rashanney and the was two people killed (in) the name of Mc Cole with the lightening. There was a great wind-storm about the year eighteen hundred and eighty five. People were up all night putting roaps on their houses and there was lots of roofs blown of houses, and there lots of (of) corn stacks tumbles. Nearly all the roofs of the thatched houses in the country were blown away.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. processes and phenomena
      1. severe weather (~1,727)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mary Eliza Hartin
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Collin, Co. Donegal
    Informant
    John Gillespie
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    78
    Address
    Collin, Co. Donegal