School: O'Brennan, Baile Mhic Ealgóid, Tráighlí
- Location:
- An Tóin Riabhach Íochtarach, Co. Chiarraí
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Loingsigh
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- (continued from previous page)covered over. When the snow ceased falling, he went out to look for them. He searched for a whole day and in the evening they found the sheep covered with snow, but they were still living because their breath had made a hole in the snow & therefore they could not smother."
- "In the year 1913 in the month of September, of an evening which was cold and wet - a great storm of lightning occurred which did a great amount of damage. Denis Moynihan (R. I. P.), a farmer, who lived at Tylough went out to a field about 400 yards away from his house to feed his heifers. He had a "beart" of hay in a rope, and he emptied it near a ditch - so that the heifers would have shelter from the rain. He went away & left the heifers eating the hay. When he went up the field a little bit, he saw a flash of lightning & then heard "a clap of thunder down on the flash "& he looked around to find his "fine five heifers" dead - near the ditch"
- Collector
- Sheila Collins
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- An Ré Mhór, Co. Chiarraí
- Bridie Moloney says : -
In the year 1887 in the month of August, on a Sunday, there was a terrible thunderstorm. A man "by the name of " Deady - who lived near Firies gave all the week drinking in a public house, and went mowing on a Sunday. When the thunderstorm(continues on next page)- Collector
- Bridie Moloney
- Gender
- Female