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School: Kilgobnet

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Kilgobnet, Co. Kerry
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Séamus Ó Cinneide; Ellen Foley
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0471, Page 384

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    The worst wind the people around here remember is the night of the wind. The wind was so bad that it blew the (wind) sheep that were grazing on the mountain side up in the air and carried them miles away and killed them.
    It blew down a hay-shed and and a cow house on a man that lived at Genah. It came in great whirling gales in one field it blew a horse-car up in the air and it blew it around for a bit and at last blew it down at the other end of the field.
    The Rivers Upper yeadach Lower yeadach and the Dunloe River overflowed and swept away the bridges. It left (swept) about 6 inches of sand in a field belonging to a Mrs. Shea.
    It swept away a
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    Topics
    1. processes and phenomena
      1. severe weather (~1,727)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Nora Cahill
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Shanacloon, Co. Kerry
    Informant
    Mrs James Cahill
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Shanacloon, Co. Kerry