School: Clochar na Trócaire, Ceannanus Mór

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Kells, Co. Meath
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Siúracha na Trócaire
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  1. XML School: Clochar na Trócaire, Ceannanus Mór
  2. XML Page 167
  3. XML “The Hauling Home”
  4. XML “The Night of the Big Wind”

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    Topics
    1. activities
      1. social activities (~7)
        1. rites of passage (~573)
    2. time
      1. historical periods by name (~25)
        1. the great famine (~4,013)
    Language
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    Nancy Lacy
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    12
  2. The night of the big wind
    .The 6th of January 1839.
    The day before was quite calm up until about 3 o'clock. Then a brisk wind rose which later on got louder and louder. In the end the people who were sitting up all night being afraid to go to bed could not hear each other speaking, though they shouted as loud as they could.
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