School: Doire Liath (roll number 14301)
- Location:
- Derrylea, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Seosamh Ó Cuanaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0107, Page 127
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“In 1839 there was a fierce wind.”
In 1839 there was a fierce wind.
It was a terrible wind and it lasted six hours.
It swept roofs off houses and knocked stacks and ricks of hay.
The wind came straight from the Atlantic ocean. The people thought it was raining a little but it was the sea water that the wind had brought from the Atlantic.
There were two houses knocked in Johnstown - Paddy Cruise's house and John Jennings' house.
There were people out trying to hold the roofs on stacks and on houses and they were all covered with salt.
Some stacks were swept for over a mile and the leaves of the trees in Logboy wood tasted of salt on the following days.
Logboy wood is situated about forty miles from the sea
The people who were walking on the roads were swept inside the ditches. Some of the people thought it was the end of the World.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Máire Ní Dallán
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Grallagh, Co. Mayo