School: Cill Mhíde (C.), Caisleán Nua (roll number 7959)
- Location:
- Kilmeedy, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Eibhlín Ní Bhraonáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0496, Page 287
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- A very bad storm occurred in this country in the September of 1914. It started about noon and lasted four or five hours. All the accounts that I have got say that it did a lot of harm. At that period hay and some corn had been cut and some hay was out in wynds. The people say that the first portents were tiny drops of rain that were followed by a heavy wind, the thunder and lightning being very severe and dangerous. Some houses were stripped of their roofs and many people were left homeless. The wind tore the majority of the trees from their roots and many motorists and car drivers were killed when passing by. All the people around Kilmeedy, Co Limerick, whose hay was out, were robbed of it by the wind and(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Nancy Enright
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Kilmeedy, Co. Limerick
- Informant
- Thomas Cotter
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Kilmeedy, Co. Limerick
