1. dúchas.ie
  2. The Schools' Collection
  3. Killahan (B.)

School: Killahan (B.)

Location:
Killahan, Co. Kerry
Teacher:
Liam Ó Leathlobhair
Browse
Mode:
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0413, Page 175

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0413, Page 175

Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.

See copyright details.

Download

Open data

Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

  1. XML School: Killahan (B.)
  2. XML Page 175
  3. XML “A Storm”
  4. XML “A Storm”

Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.

On this page

  1. A Storm (continued)

    Share Share Post
    (continued from previous page)
    Horgan's field. When Michael Horgan went out next morning he got a wonderful surprise when he saw the hay shed in his field, It carried Kate Healy's donkey down in one of Tim Duggan's fields. It also carried Maurice Treacy's hay shed into one of Michael Collin's fields and the hay was carried every where about the fields and the bogs. That very same night the roof was carried off Tim Duggan's stable.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit

  2. A Storm

    Share Share Post
    A Storm
    About the year 1903 there came a great storm. This storm made great havoc in the neighbour-hood. It came so severe that it knocked sheds especially those that were nearly empty.
    In the parish of Abbeydorney about half a mile from the village there was a house in which a family named Hurley lived. This house was at the entrance to the Abbey and outside it there was a timber porch.
    When the storm came it
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. processes and phenomena
      1. severe weather (~1,727)
    Language
    English