School: Moyne (B.) (roll number 13989)

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1. Severe Weather - an Unusual Occurance (continued)

   

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   a hillock to get a view. Clouds of something black and threatening was rising up from Síde Hill about half a mile distant and was brought on quickly by a mighty hurricane.
   It was fierce, it hurled everything into atoms before it, stripped houses, unroofed a fine dwelling house belonging to James McNerney and pinned himself under a haystack, where he was found later at the point of death. Sheets of iron helped the mad shrieks. Thus it continued through the town, destroying everything in its path and apparently died down at a fort in Clonback owned by a protestant man named Anderon in the parish of Colmcille.
   All the old people maintained that it was the

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   History Edit

   Topics

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

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Francis Doyle

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Moyne, Co. Longford

   Informant

   Mary Gray

   Gender

   Female

   Age

   29

   Address

   Edenmore, Co. Longford