School: Benbawn
- Location:
- Binbane, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: M. Gillespie
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- Severe weather is caused by too much rain, too much wind, or too much frost and snow.
In the year 1839, (that is ninety-nine years ago.) there was a great storm.
It did a tremendous amount of harm in the country. It knocked down the half of the houses in the country, and blew the roofs of many others. There was a man going up to Crush, and the strong wind blew him into a house. And he had to stay there all night.
There was a great thunder storm about sixty years ago. And at night the flashes of lightning were so terrible that you could see as plain as day in every house. There was a man called Montgomery, and he was hanged the next morning for murdering a bank-man.
One night in August 1914, there was a great thunder storm. It was as bright as day with the lightning. And in the same year there was a great(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Minnie Moore
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Leaghin, Co. Cavan
