School: Cluain Fhada (B.) (roll number 15557)
- Location:
- Cloonfad, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Pádhraic Ó Fathaigh
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Wind Storm
My father remembers a big storm in the year 1927. It was in the month of February. It lasted six hours. The people knew it would come because the sky was red in the east the day before. It knocked Joe Hoban's house in Kiltobar. It knocked a cock of hay on a cow also and killed her. the cow belonged to Moran of Kiltullagh.
Big Wind of 1839
The people had to put Thomas Keane of Gurteen under a big pot when he was small. The people had to go out of their houses and lie under the ditches afraid the roof would be blown off. It knocked a barn belonging to Patrick Raftery and it killed an old horse on him too.
Thunder Storm
An old woman of my village told me that we had a thunder storm about seven years ago. It killed an old cow belonging to Dwyers of Gurrane.
Wind Storm
There was a wind-storm in the year 1927. It came on the 15th of January. The sign of it coming was the appearance of red in the sky in the morning. It lasted three hours. The(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Martin Coyne
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Tonregee, Co. Mayo
- Collector
- Thomas Groarke
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Gorteenacammadil, Co. Roscommon
- Informant
- James Coyne
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 65
- Address
- Tonregee, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Pat Groarke
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 60
- Address
- Gorteenacammadil, Co. Roscommon
