School: Coill Chláir (roll number 14276)

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   In the college of Maynooth
   There lived not a man
   In learning could equal
   Young Francis McCann

   There is a stone with this song written on it at Killnagross where the man died. A great beach tree is also growing there.

   

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   On the night of the big wind there were hens belonging to a man named James Kelly on the roost. The roost was a bad one and the hens were blown over a half a mile from where they were until they were knocked down against the end of an old house.

   

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   In the year one thousand nine hundred and one there was a great storm which killed a great number of cattle and horses. People also lost their lives. In this parish a man went out to feed his cattle. He was blown down off the rick and killed. His wife was inside with her little

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   Topics

   1. processes and phenomena
      1. severe weather (~1,727)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Pauline Carter

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Shanraw, Co. Leitrim

   Informant

   Mrs Carter

   Gender

   Female

   Age

   48

   Address

   Shanraw, Co. Leitrim