School: Uachtar Árd (roll number 4786)
- Location:
- Oughterard, Co. Galway
- Teacher: An tSr M. S. Iognáid
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0065, Page 194
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You are not logged in, but you are welcome to contribute a transcription anonymously. In this case, your IP address will be stored in the interest of quality control.By clicking the save button you agree that your contribution will be available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License and that a link to dúchas.ie is sufficient as attribution. - There were a good many storms in Ireland long ago but there was one very bad storm in 1926. Many houses were damaged and trees were knocked. The signal house at the Oughterard railway Station was smashed and all the glass was broken. Many walls were knocked and ricks of hay and straw were also tumbled. That night also there was terrible thunder and lightning and it knocked a great number of big trees.There was an old watch house at the Waterfall and it was also knocked and the roof was taken off an old outhouse also. There is an old tree at Saint Michael's well which was struck by the lightening and no leaves ever grew on the tree since and it is still standing there.
