School: Ballykelly
- Location:
- Ballykelly, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Pádraig Mac Uadain
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- (continued from previous page)is six Irish miles. In the middle of the Winter that year, the snow drifted about isx or seven feet aong the roads and they had to carry the corpse.
- About thirty years ago there was a great wind storm. The day before the storm the people saw wind "gawls" in the sky and there was froth on the river. The wind rose about one o'clock in the morning.
It was in the month of February.
My father was watching it from the hill under the house.
It burst a hole in Piltown Bank.
There was a boat coming up the river. The water was in on the marshes. The wind blew the boat in on the marshes.
She was full of water when(continues on next page) - Collector
- Mick Dempsey
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Whitechurch, Co. Wexford
