School: O'Brennan, Baile Mhic Ealgóid, Tráighlí
- Location:
- Tonreagh Lower, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Loingsigh
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- (continued from previous page)came he went into an old castle nearby.
A flash of lightning came and killed him. Great rain & floods occured the same day."
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- Informant
- Michael Scanlon
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Clogherclemin, Co. Kerry
- Maureen Brosnan says : -
About 50 years ago a great flood - caused by heavy rains - broke out of the river Leha above Costelloe's of Tonreigh, & rushed down through the fields inundating all the land on each side of the river & carrying with it reeks of turf, small cocks of hay & anything that came before it. Potally bridge was unable to carry the water & it spread out on the road & flowed down through Scanlon's & Godley's land to the bridge of Ballycarthy on the main Tralee & Castleisland road doing much damage on the way. - Donal Leen Ballincullig says : -
"About the 1903 there was a great rain-storm. A place known as the "moving bog" near Killarney was carried by the flood into the middle of the lake. In A place near Rathmore(continues on next page)
