School: Clonfinlough, Athlone
- Location:
- Clonfinlough, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: E. Ní Mhionacháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0812, Page 312
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- The storm took place on the 26th 27th of February 1903. It lasted from 10. p.m. to 5. a.m. in the morning It did a lot of damage, it knocked the end out of our barn and took the roof off it. It carried the horses car about half a mile away. A lot of trees were knocked across the road, and stopped the traffic for nearly a week (a) Another barn was blown away altogether, nothing was left but the foundation. There was a donkey's cart met coming down the road, and one person said the devil was in the cart. There were no lives lost around here.
- Collector
- Annie Lowe
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Carrowkeel, Co. Offaly
- Informant
- John Fitzpatrick
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 76
- Address
- Clonascra, Co. Offaly
