School: Kilrush (roll number 14039)
- Location:
- Ballynaberney, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: C. E. Kidd
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- 277My 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(continues on next page)- Collector
- Sonny Pierce
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballyroebuck, Co. Wexford
- (continued from previous page)277Information recd. from :
Rev. A. H. C. Atkinson
Kilrush Rectory
Ferns,
Co. Wexford.(3) Age (70 yrs.) 4. Protestant Rector
(5) Co. Antrim . Co. Wexford.