School: Ballyhale (roll number 7914)

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   face destroyed. Power's haybarn was carried off & most of the roof of the dwelling house but it did not fall in on them as Miss Aylward expected. Coghlan's or Heffernan's had put on a zinc roof over the thatch covering which had been the roof for many years. The zinc was blown off & out of the village but whether the storm was going down when that happened or not scarcely any of the old thatch was carried away so that they were not so badly off as some of the neighbours Mr Heffernam had great work in the morning looking for the sheets of zinc. A piece of the old gable of the ruin in the Castle field to the west of the village was also knocked down in this storm.

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   Topics

   1. processes and phenomena
      1. severe weather (~1,727)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Máire Ní Longaigh

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Ballyhale, Co. Kilkenny

   Informant

   Annie Quinlan

   Other names

   Annie Quinlan

   Mrs S. Long

   Relation

   Parent

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Ballyhale, Co. Kilkenny