School: Kilmurry

Location:
Kilmurry, Co. Offaly
Teacher:
A. de Búrca
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0803, Page 152

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  1. In the year 1839 there was a terrible storm. It took the roof off the houses and blew them off some perches. Everyone had to sleep in roofless houses until they were roofed again.
    In the year 1919 about the month of October there was a terrible thunderstorm and it was so wicked that a thunderbolt came, and made a large round hole in the earth in our field. It was so large that my father had to draw clay to fill it up.
    There was another storm in 1917. It blew the hay and straw through the country, and some of the hay fell down on the cattle and they were smothered before they were released. My father, and the neighbours gathered from the near houses to get the cattle out from under the hay.
    There was a rain storm in the year 1915. It was very bad in some places. But it was not back in Ballycommon. Although no one got their turf only the people who cut it in February and got it immediately after it getting dry. There were no big floods in my district.
    Collected by Brigid Egan (13) of Ballycommon, Daingean from her father Thomas (68) of same address.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. processes and phenomena
      1. severe weather (~1,727)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Brigid Egan
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    13
    Address
    Ballycommon, Co. Offaly
    Informant
    Thomas Egan
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    68
    Address
    Ballycommon, Co. Offaly