School: Leithead (roll number 5480)
- Location:
- An Leithead, Co. Chiarraí
- Teacher: Diarmuid Ó Súilleabháin
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0463, Page 238
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- One night about Twenty years ago there was a great thunder storm. There was a lightning got into a house in Fehanaugh of a man by the name of Denis O Sullivan. It knocked the chimney, broke a board in the dresser. There were two bottles in the dresser, a bottle of Holy Water and a bottle of oil. the bottle of oil was broken and the bottle of Holy Water was not touched. The lightning broke the door and dug a big hole in the fence, outside the door and knocked a cock of hay. The people of the house got a great fright.
- Collector
- Peggy O Sullivan
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Nancy O Sullivan
- Relation
- Grandparent
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 80
