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   “One night a woman was going to Knockmore with eggs. It let one rap of thunder and a flash of lightning...”

   

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   One night a woman was going to Knockmore with eggs. It let one rap of thunder and a flash of lightning and there was a smell with it. She went into a house. About a hundred yards away from the house a hundred sheep were killed with the lightning. There was a flood and it lasted five weeks. A man had two acres of hay and he had it cocked. The flood covered the cocks. The man used to go out in a "cot" and try to save the hay. The big wind came. It knocked houses and everything. A man brought out his wife and tied her to a bush and he went in for a blanket to put around her. When he came out the woman and the bush were gone with the wind.

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   Topics

   1. genre
      1. weather-lore (~6,442)
   2. time
      1. historical periods by name (~25)
         1. the great famine (~4,013)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Kathleen Hopkins

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Foxford, Co. Mayo