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School: Gort an Tuair (roll number 13467)

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Gortatoor, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Áine Nic Oirealla
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0141, Page 401

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  1. Oíche na Gaoithe Móire 1839

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    The Night of the Big Wind was in the year 1839.
    It was an awful bad night, the worst ever anyone saw. There was a big ministers house in Lacken ; it was the strongest house in the district. The wind began early on a Saturday evening. It threw the house but fortunately enough the minister was away visiting his friends and the servants were gone home and the house was locked, but all the things in it were ruined and all the cattle in the stables were injured.
    It damaged all the thatched houses in the district, and left a lot of people homeless and without cattle.
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. processes and phenomena
      1. winds (~357)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Gerrard Walsh
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Gallowshill, Co. Mayo
    Informant
    Michael Walsh
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Gallowshill, Co. Mayo