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 347
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- (continued from previous page)The operation of spinning, which it next underwent consisted in drawing out several of the fibres and twisting them together. This was done by means of a spinning wheel.
- The year of the big wind was 1839. It was a very bright night. At midday the storm arose.
All the people had to seek shelter under the ditches, lest their houses should be blown on top of them if they stayed indoors.
Then it abated some of the people were left homeless. On the 6th January 1839 on Sunday the storm occurred. - The lived many tailors in this(continues on next page)
