School: Gowran (C.) (roll number 15366)
- Location:
- Gowran, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Máiréad Ní Chuinn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0861, Page 158
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- 23-3-38 Severe Weather
In February 1902 on a grand moonlight night I went to bed. Everything was nice & quiet & the country side was quite peaceful. About eleven o'clock I woke & the doors & windows were all rattling. There was an awful storm blowing & the sound of trees falling came from all directions. The storm ceased. I got up & looked out of the window & there was the finest of big oak trees and elm trees that were standing for hundreds of years uprooted. There was two young horses sheltering under a tree & it fell & killed them. There was an old woman living by herself in an ould bad house. Her son was working with a farmer a mile away & he used to stop there at night. The storm was so bad that he thought the old house with his mother would be blown down. He said he would go and bring her to the farmers house. He had to go through an iron gate and when he was bringing her to the farmers house she could not stand with the storm and he luckily had a piece of rope in his pocket so he taught of a trick. He tied her to a bush whilst he was shuting the gate.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Walsh
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Gowran, Co. Kilkenny
- Informant
- Mr John Burke
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Gowran, Co. Kilkenny
