The worst storm of over sixty year blew over this country on the 4th February 1904. It did a lot of damage all over the district & scarcely any house escaped its effects
Floodhall demesne was very thickly wooded and large numbers of the trees were knocked down by the storm. Colonel Flood who then lived in Floodhall was approached by an auctioneer who wished to buy or sell the trees for him but the Colonel would not sell, saying "What God knocked should be given to the poor". The tenants on the estate with the workers and any other poor people around who could get any means of getting the wood home could get all they wanted & such big supplies were laid in