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School: Killygordon (roll number 11585)

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Killygordon, Co. Donegal
Teacher:
M. Eibhlín Ní Loinsigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1099, Page 293

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  1. The Big Flood

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    This is a story of a terrible flood which took place in the year 1857, the year after Drumavish school was built in the month of July.
    James Johnston, the landlord had an auction of bog-wood in a place they call Sallywood. It is about a mile from our house.
    During the auction the thunder and lightning began. It was worse than the day Montgomery was hung. The men that bought the bog wood went home for carts to take it away. It was two days before some of them got home. Every road they went the bridges were swept away.
    When Robert Denniston and George Gillespie, grandfathers of two boys
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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    Topics
    1. processes and phenomena
      1. rain and floods (~124)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Agnes Bates
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Drumevish, Co. Donegal
    Informant
    Robert Bates
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    70
    Occupation
    Farmer
    Address
    Drumevish, Co. Donegal