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1. Floods and Storms (continued)

   

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   thatch and killed the boy.

   Another year very bad lightning came in the harvest. Some man had eight cattle in Direenag (?) mountain preparing for Puck fair and a gush of lightning came and killed them all.

   
   In eighteen-ninety-eight a terrible fall of snow came. It was very thick and it lasted for six or seven weeks. It was about eighteen feet high and after the six weeks it freezed down in it. Several sheep and goats were lost as they had no grass for a long time. The goats ate the hair off each other's back with hunger as they had nothing else to eat. In nineteen-hundred and five in the month of July big blocks of ice were on the ground.

   Back in Lochán a crew were lost in a boat hauling the nets with fish. While they were hauling the nets a storm rose and the crew were drowned. Another crew were lost coming from near Cork.

   
   A great storm also rose in nineteen-hundred-and six. It rooted nearly all the trees around here and a branch of a big tree killed a Sullivan man near Derryquin. He was cycling by night when it struck

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   History Edit

   Topics

   1. processes and phenomena
      1. rain and floods (~124)

   Language

   English

   Informant

   Denis Cronin

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Sneem, Co. Kerry

   Informant

   Mrs Hussey

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Sneem, Co. Kerry