School: Coill Chláir (roll number 14276)
- Location:
- Kilclare, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Treasa Ní Oibeacáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0211, Page 178
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- (continued from previous page)It blew off boards off a wooden bridge in Sheafield.
- In January 1839 there was a great wind which blew a bridge and houses down and uprooted trees in Sheafield. It blew the hay out of my townland as far as Newbrook, a distance of one mile.
- A great snow storm raged in eighteen hundred and fifty. Peter Dunne of Sheafield was lost in a drift. He was nearly dead when found.
- In the year eighteen eighty two a very severe storm occurred in our district. It lasted one day and caused extensive damage. The roof was swept off John Floyd's dwelling house. About a half a rick of hay was blown out of John Beirne's garden (Garvagh). Two trees were knocked at James Horan's, Scrabagh.
- Collector
- Annie Pagnam
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Seltan (McDonald), Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- James Curran
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 65
- Address
- Seltan (McDonald), Co. Leitrim
- Seventy years ago a flood arose in our locality. Three links of turf(continues on next page)
