School: Faughalstown (roll number 9622)
- Location:
- Faughalstown, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: Bean Mhic Gabhann
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0719, Page 545
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- (continued from previous page)and eleven there was a severe thunderstorm.
The lightning was so bad that it set Captain O'Hara's house on fire.
It killed a bullock on a man named Kane and killed a horse that a man was leading to Multy. The man luckily had taken his hand off the bit to bless himself and was not killed. This thunderstorm lasted for five days.
Peter Bruton, Ringtown Castlepollard.
Informant - Mrs Bruton Ringtown Castlepollard.
- We sometimes hear of wind-storms and thunder-storms but very few of us has ever experienced a real wind-storm.
On one evening in Feb-(continues on next page) - Collector
- Patrick Godfrey
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- James Godfrey
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Bigwood, Co. Westmeath
