1. dúchas.ie
  2. The Schools' Collection
  3. Mín Riabhach

School: Mín Riabhach (roll number 17050)

Location:
Meenreagh, Co. Donegal
Teacher:
Anton Ó Domhnaill
Browse
Mode:
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1097, Page 12

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1097, Page 12

Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.

See copyright details.

Download

Open data

Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

  1. XML School: Mín Riabhach
  2. XML Page 12
  3. XML “Severe Weather”

Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.

On this page

  1. Severe Weather (continued)

    Share Share Post
    (continued from previous page)
    Gallen lived in a barn. The candles were lighted over her, and when she was lying the wind lifted the roof off the house where she was lying, and let it fall down again without doing the house any harm. It is said that there were people living in Donegal whose names were Fodoals. They saw the devil and he gave them money to come with him. It was the death of one of them which caused the big wind.
    One Sunday about 12 years ago there was a great thunder-storm. It happened in the year 1866. There was terrible wind, rain, thunder and lightning. A big thunder bolt fell in Hugh Sweenie’s bog. There was a terrible flood and it went around Brian Dougan’s. Two men whose names
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. processes and phenomena
      1. severe weather (~1,727)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Rose Doherty
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Tievecloghoge, Co. Donegal
    Informant
    Mr Patrick Gallen
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Meenreagh, Co. Donegal