School: Cluain Eich (roll number 9942)
- Location:
- Clooneagh, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Sr. Ó Donnabhair
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0219, Page 320
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- (continued from previous page)and brought it in and broke it. When she was breaking it, it started to roar. So the girl put it down and that night she went to bed and only next morning she died.
- The Big Wind of '39 did so much damage that it will never be forgotten as the story goes from father to son. It blew the whole roof off Cloonturk Chapel and left the walls standing bare. Mass had to be celebrated in a fixture made up by the people until the chapel was repaired again. There was a family named Muldowney in Drumard and their house was nearly brought away altogether. Some of(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Michael Greene
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Drumard (Jones), Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- William Greene
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 60
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Drumard (Jones), Co. Leitrim
