School: Coill Chláir (roll number 14276)
- Location:
- Kilclare, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Treasa Ní Oibeacáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0211, Page 177
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- (continued from previous page)baby in her lap. The wind quenched the light and a stone fell down the chimney and split the woman's apron but both came safe.
- In the year eighteen thirty nine occurred the most terrific wind storm known in the memory of the oldest person alive today. It is still known as the Big Wind. The old people give is to understand that it must have been a remarkable day in their lives. This storm did great destruction to everything that came before it. Houses were stripped of their roofs. Hay and straw were blown miles away and a great number of trees were uprooted in the woods around. Many animals were killed by stones falling on them. It knocked three dwelling houses but no people's lives were lost.
- Collector
- Kit Mulvey
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Garvagh, Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- Mrs Doherty
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 72
- Address
- Sheebeg, Co. Leitrim
- In February nineteen hundred and thirteen a great storm arose. It blew the roof off many houses in the district(continues on next page)
