School: Killea (roll number 3219)

Location:
Killea, Co. Leitrim
Teacher:
Séamus Mac Coilín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0195, Page 256

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  2. Severe Weather (1)
    My father said that the wind storm in 1884 was the worst in his memory. It happened when he was only sixteen. Hundreds of ricks were tossed and spread over the land convenient to them. A few haystacks were blown down in this district and out houses were stripped of their zinc roofs. Sheets of zinc were brought miles away from where they belonged and some of them were blown into rivers and swept away by the great flood which followed the windstorm. There was a constant flow of rain coming from the heavens from 3pm
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