School: Ballyuskill (B.), Ballyragget
- Location:
- Ballyoskill, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: F. Mac Cárthaigh
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- (continued from previous page)lightning. The roofs were lifted off dwelling houses and there were a lot of other houses burned.
- About thirty five years ago there was a very severe storm. Before the storm the poor people could not get any sticks out of the wood. There were no dwelling houses blown down but there were plenty of cattle sheds and thousands of trees in the wood. Then the poor of the towns had lots of sticks for the rest of the winter
- Collector
- Thomas Phelan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Rosconnell Glebe, Co. Laois
- Informant
- Michael Phelan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Rosconnell Glebe, Co. Laois
- About a hundred years ago there was a thunder storm. There were three men hunting and they were going up along this ditch they had alot of dogs. They were going along and a ball of fire fell and burnt the whole of the ditch and it burnt a man and a cock of hay and it burnt some of the dogs. There is no sign of the to be seen now.
