School: Loughkeeren

Location:
Knockatemple, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Anna M. Warde
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  1. My father told me that the night of the Big Wind in 1839 was the night on which my Grandmother was born. On that night a man tied his mother Maire Beag to a tree for safety, because all the thatch was blown off the house and when he went out to look at her, she and the tree were gone with the wind. I was told that the storm began in the evening and it lasted all night. It stopped sometime in the morning.
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. weather-lore (~6,442)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Sara Hall
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Loughkeeraun Well, Co. Mayo