School: Killinaboy (roll number 12557)
- Location:
- Cill Iníne Baoith, Co. an Chláir
- Teacher: Donncha Ó Céilleachair
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- (continued from previous page)Collected by: Seóirse Riain, Crossard
Told by: Mrs Kenny, Crossard, his aunt
(65 years)
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- Collector
- Timothy Dillon
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Crossard, Co. an Chláir
- Informant
- Martain Mac Mahon
- Relation
- Grandparent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 66
- Address
- Crossard, Co. an Chláir
- In the year 1839 there was a great storm. There was a stack of corn in a garden in Poulcoree and there was never a sheaf of it seen since. There were showers of salt water blown blown a hundred miles inland. There were birds found inland that were blown in out of the sea called Petrels., There was an umbrella taken from a woman in Lahinch and was found near Gort. The noise of it was so fierce that any two people could not hear one another talking no matter how near they were to each other. If the greatest battle was ever fought(continues on next page)
