School: Baile na Martra (B.) (roll number 13647)
- Location:
- Castlemartyr, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Seán de Barra
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- In the harvest of nineteen hundred and three when the corn was out in the fields in stacks, about four o' clock p.m. a sudden violent storm blew up from the north-west. A remarkable thing about this storm was that there were no clouds in the sky and that it was unaccompanied by any rain. The wind must have been of a velocity of eighty miles per hour. A great number of trees were knocked in Phoenix Park and it was the general opinion that this was the biggest storm since the big wind of eighteen thirty nine. The principal damage done locally was to roofs of houses which were stripped of their slates and several people had narrow escapes from injury.
A good many corn stacks were carried into their neighbour's fields and in one district the corn was blown over the cliffs and into the sea and was afterwards(continues on next page) - Collector
- Master S. Doolan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Castlemartyr, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Mr J. Garde
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 55
- Occupation
- Shopkeeper
- Address
- Castlemartyr, Co. Cork
