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Urlaur, Co. Mayo
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0113, Page 376

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  1. The Night of the Big Wind

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    The night of the big wind will be remembered to the end of time. People in them days used build their houses in sandpits and in the lowest places they could find. There was one house that was built in particular with the land as high as the roof all around it. So the night of the big wind all the neighours around crawled on their hands and knees to this for safety. The[y] were there praying for the wind to cease. There was [a] family and there was one girl that was very deaf and her parents forgot to bring her with them. The wind was so strong that it blew the little cottage down and it blew
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. processes and phenomena
      1. winds (~357)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Máire Ní Flaitile
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Aghadiffin, Co. Mayo
    Informant
    James Cafferky
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Aghadiffin, Co. Mayo