School: Cill Cruim / Killocrim (roll number 17072)
- Location:
- Killacrim, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Micheál Óg Ó Catháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0407D, Page 16_028
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- In the year 1839 there was a very severe storm. This night is now known as the "night of the big wind". It did an amount of damage; it took slates of every house in the town and in the country, it knocked a share of old thatched houses and stalls and ricks of hay and haysheds.
In the year 1898 a big storm arose. It swept ricks of hay and two haysheds in our surroundings.
In the year 1935 a flash of lightning hit a stall in a man named Brassil and knocked the gable end of it.
A man named Patrick Kelly from Duagh was taking a bucket of water from a well when a flash came. He got a fright and ran in the shade of a bush when another flash came and(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Pádraig Bairéad
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Killacrim, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- Michael Barrett
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Gortnaminsha, Co. Kerry
