School: Uachtar Árd (roll number 4786)
- Location:
- Oughterard, Co. Galway
- Teacher: An tSr M. S. Iognáid
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- There were many bad storms in Ireland but there was an awful storm in the year 1839.
It did a lot of damage. Boats were lost, houses knocked and damage done to crops. There was a boat going from Galway to Sligo with poteen when the storm arose. The boat was dashed to pieces on a rock out in the sea. The men were drowned and their bodies were found of the sand in Salthill when the storm over.
Each man had a bottle of poteen in his pocket and one had a cag of poteen in his hands.
- Collector
- Julia Clancy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Oughterard, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Mrs Conneely
- Gender
- Female
