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School: Cill Srianáin (Jamestown) (roll number 1024)

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Jamestown, Co. Leitrim
Teacher:
Bríd Ní Ghormáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0210, Page 338

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  1. Severe Weather - The Big Wind of 1839

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    About 50 miles from the sea, at the mill of Pulla Mohhill, near Elphin, where my great grandmother was born, the salt of the sea was tasted by her there, on the stones of the mill, forseveral days after the storm.
    At Kilmactranny, nobody could get to see the cattle at Cnoc Mór - they would be blown away. So my great-grand-uncle - John Cooney - crawled on his hands and knees to see his cattle there.
    The roof was stripped off every house in the neighbourhood. People animals and birds suffered severely.
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. processes and phenomena
      1. winds (~357)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mary Gorman
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    Mrs Hunt
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    85
    Address
    Jamestown, Co. Leitrim