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School: Garbally, Banagher

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Garbally, Co. Offaly
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0817, Page 057

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    Severe Weather
    In the month of January in the year nineteen hundred and three there was a severe storm which caused much trouble to the people of Birr.
    On evening of the 11th of January the storm began and it lasted for eight hours from six o'clock until two o'clock in the morning.
    Along with the severe wind there was thunder and lightning. About ten o'clock the lightning struck the Protestant Church in Birr. It knocked the greater part of the church. There were twelve trees growing on the right of of the Oxmantown Mall. These were knocked by the great wind.
    Katie Mitchell,
    Clondalla Birr Offaly
    Information received from -
    John Mitchell 56
    Clondalla Birr Offaly
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. weather-lore (~6,442)
    2. processes and phenomena
      1. severe weather (~1,727)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Katie Mitchell
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Clondallow, Co. Offaly
    Informant
    John Mitchell
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    56
    Address
    Clondallow, Co. Offaly