School: Castletowngeoghegan (C.) (roll number 2093)

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1. Severe Weather (continued)

   

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   there would have been a scarcity of food as no lorries or cars could travel to bring in fresh supplies.
   There was a heavy thunder storm about twelve years ago. It started at lunch-time and lasted until after three o'clock. The children were very frightened and some of the infants covered their heads with the curtain of the teacher's desk so that they would not see the lightning while the bigger children knelt in prayer and recited many Rosaries.
   In the year of the big frost 1897, Lough Ennel was frozen and a man walked across it from Mullingar and he said it was the most level piece of land he ever walked and that there was only one stream across it. Kitty Ward of Streamstown was in her house the night of the big wind in 1839. She got afraid and she went out side. The wind lifted her a mile across a bog and deposited her near an ash tree that was blown down. Snow fell afterwards and the people set out to look for her and they found her in a snowdrift. On the same night a wooden steeple on the Protestant Church in Castletown was blown down by the wind and the next morning people found it 600 yrds away.

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   History Edit

   Topics

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

   Language

   English

   Collector

   James Gannon

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Ballybrown, Co. Westmeath