School: Naomh Seosamh, Baile an Ruadháin (roll number 15829)
- Location:
- Ballinrooaun, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Mrs Nora Lally
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0077, Page 334
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“There were once a man and his wife who were very poor.”
(continued from previous page)again but lived happily on their meagre daily bread.
- My grandmother often told my mother uncle and aunts the story of the storm mór or big wind in 1839.
She was only three years old at the time and her father, my great grandfather, placed herself and the child under the chimney stone for safety. The rest of the house was rocking to and fro and they did not know what minute the house would be blown away. They remained there for several hours frightened and praying to Our Lady Star of the Sea and storm to save them until morning. They were suffering from shock for some time after.
The taste of sea water, some twenty five miles away, could be got on milk basins or cans, which were outside.(continues on next page) - Collector
- Veronica Kelly
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Windfield Lower, Co. Galway
- Informant
- J Keary
- Relation
- Relative (other than parent or grandparent)
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 70
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Derryglassaun, Co. Galway
