School: Gort na Léime (roll number 13012)
- Location:
- Gortaleam, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Pádhraic Ó Corcoráin
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- My parents remember about sixteen years ago we had great thunder and lightning. It killed pigs cattle and other little losses. It knocked trees and old-houses. It wounded people and it was so bad that it shook the windows in the houses. It did a lot of damage in the country at that time.
- Collector
- Maureen Rabbitte
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Lissyconor, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Katie Mc Hugh
- Other names
- Katie Mc Hugh
- Mrs Kate Rabbitte
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 39
- Address
- Lissyconor, Co. Galway
- About nine months ago it killed two men at Lietra.