School: Tattenclave
- Location:
- Tattintlieve, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: B. Ní Chróinín
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0949, Page 150
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Tattenclave
- XML Page 150
- XML “Wild Weather”
- XML “Wild Weather”
- XML “Wild Weather”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- About 1850 there was three weeks or a fortnight of wild weather. It blew down stacks of hay and corn and it blew the roofs and thatch off houses. It blew water out of rivers and wells over the land.
- Collector
- Kathleen Murphy
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 15
- Address
- Tattintlieve, Co. Monaghan
- Informant
- Mrs Murphy
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 81
- Address
- Blackraw, Co. Monaghan
- About thirty years ago there was a terrible wild week of rain and wind. It blew down trees and old walls and old houses of wood and mud. It also killed many people. It blew them into rivers and blew stones and slates and iron down and killed them.
- In 1918 there was a terrible snow storm. It lasted for a week. It was three or four feet deep. Only it was in March when the people had the potatoes in many of them would have died of hunger. They had to take in snow and melt it for water.
