School: Kilbonane, Lios an Phúca (Beaufort) (roll number 5482)

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   blown out of the harbours in the Killarney Lakes. Thunder and lightening followed the great flood. It lasted one night. It killed many cattle and other stock. The flood tore up the road leading to Killarney. Traffic was held up for a day. No one was drowned in this great flood.

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   Pupils name: Tomas Ó Murchadha, Ballymalis
   Told by James Murphy, Ballymalis, Age 52 years.

   On Small Christmas Night, in year eighteen thirty nine there was a very great storm in Ireland. That night has since been known as "the night of the big wind". On that night many houses and ricks of straw were knocked. Winds of hay and stacks of oats were blown away. A house owned by John Sullivan who lived at Lahard was knocked. When the house fell it took fire. Everything in the house was destroyed, but the owner escaped. It was supposed that it was the fairies who sent the big wind, as it was thought they had been offended by the people.

   

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