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School: Kilrush (roll number 14039)

Location:
Ballynaberney, Co. Wexford
Teacher:
C. E. Kidd
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0895, Page 277

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  1. Severe Weather

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    My father told me that in the year 1897 a great wind swept the land. It commenced early in the night and did a great deal of damage. It carried away galvanised hay-sheds and blew down houses and carried away their roofs. It blew down a great many trees also, and caused the death of two men who were out in it. My Dad also remembers a great thunderstorm which occurred in July one year. He and some other men were thinning turnips when it started.
    They kept on thinning until the saw a ball of lightning falling from the sky
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    Topics
    1. processes and phenomena
      1. severe weather (~1,727)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Sonny Pierce
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Ballyroebuck, Co. Wexford

  2. Hedge-Schools (continued)

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    Information recd. from :
    Rev. A. H. C. Atkinson
    Kilrush Rectory
    Ferns,
    Co. Wexford.
    (3) Age (70 yrs.) 4. Protestant Rector
    (5) Co. Antrim . Co. Wexford.
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