School: Coolfore (roll number 10700)
- Location:
- Coolfore, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: P. Ó Cuanaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0933, Page 239
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- The night of the big wind was on the sixth of January 1839. It was the calmest day that ever was and at a quarter to twelve the wind started and it blew for three hours and a half. A lot of stacks of corn and hay ricks around our district were blown into the bogs and valleys. Houses were stripped and the roofs blown away. Trees were uprooted and hedges blown down. The wind blew from the west and whilst it lasted it raged at about a hundred miles per hour. There is no one living round our district that remembers the night of the big wind.
The next big wind was on the 22nd of February 1902 and it did a lot of harm. The wind blew at ninety miles per hour. Most people remember the big wind on the night of the 27th January 1927. The wind blew at ninety miles an hour. Considerable harm was done throughout the country. At Kilkeel in Co. Down the chimney of the Convent was blown down and one of the nuns received(continues on next page)
- Collector
- James Dowdall
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Killarue, Co. Monaghan
- Informant
- Bernard Finegan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Killarue, Co. Monaghan
