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School: Strandhill (Lár Easa)

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Strandhill, Co. Sligo
Teacher:
Máire, Bean Mhic Guidhir
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  1. Composition, The Great Wind of 1893

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    The great wind did a lot of damage in Carrowbunnawn. Long ago the houes were along the old road here. They were all tatched houses. The wind stripped the roofs off every house. The horns were blown off the cows. The people had to get out through the roofs because the fronts were by sand. The new church is built on a house that was buried in the sand. Cows were seen walking between the chimmneys of a house that was buried. Every cow had to be put out in the open because the would smother in the barns.

    Michael Molony

    Given by
    Jas Howley
    Culleenamore
    Sligo
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. time
      1. historical periods by name (~25)
        1. the great famine (~4,013)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Michael Moloney
    Gender
    Male
    Informant
    Joe Howley
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Culleenamore, Co. Sligo