Scoil: Cill Dá Lua (B.)

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1. Bad Weather (ar lean)

   

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   The floods swept across Mr. Parkers land at Ballyvalley tore down trees, uprooted the main public road and drowned almost all his live stock. But it was on a small farm at Clonfada owned by Mr. Hurley that the more serious damage was done. Beside the farm runs a stream Killestry river. This stream became a raging torrent, tore away two bridges, rolled rocks weighing several tons along as if they were marbles, and covered the farm mentioned to a depth of two feet with stones.
   My grandfather told me thirty-five years ago that he remembered the night of the Big Wind". He told me that the storm played a strange freak in this locality, but otherwise did no material damage. An old man named Johnny Hughts was trying to secure his thatched roof against damage by the storm. He was sitting or gripping the thatch when the full force of the storm caught him. Carrying away a portion of the thatch, with Johnny,

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   Béarla

   Bailitheoir

   Michael J. Lynch

   Inscne

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   Aois

   43

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   Michael Lynch

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   Fireann

   Aois

   91

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   Cill Dalua, Co. an Chláir