School: Sliabh na Cille (roll number 14513)
- Location:
- Slievenakilla, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Peadar Mac Fhlannchadha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0206, Page 264
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- The Big Wind of 1839 leveled houses and uprooted trees. There were thirty people killed in Ballinaglera.
Thunderstorms:
There was a great thunderstorm on the 3rd of August in the year 1822. The lightning struck Jack Dolan's house which is situated in the townland of Cornamuckla, Balllinaglera. It knocked a few stones out of the gable of the house and it hit a bed. No people were injured.
A Rainstorm:
In the year 1873 there was a great rainstorm. It started while the people were away at Mass. When they came home all the houses along the rivers were swept.
A Snowstorm:
In the year 1890 there was a great snowstorm. It filled the valleys level with the hills. There were many sheep lost. Some of them lived for six weeks. People found the sheep by a yellow spot that used to appear on the top of the snow. Then they used to dig down until they came to the sheep. There were a horse and some cattle lost. It lasted for about seven weeks.(Francie Browne from his grandmother, over 70 years of age, Mrs. Susan Rynn of Aughrim, Ballinaglera)
- Collector
- Francie Browne
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Mrs Susan Rynn
- Relation
- Grandparent
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 70
- Address
- Aughrim, Co. Leitrim
