School: Carnalassan (roll number 6106)
- Location:
- Carrownalassan, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Ss. Mac Eoghain
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0257, Page 170
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: Carnalassan
- XML Page 170
- XML “Severe 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
- During the Winter nights my father often tells us, all the stories he heard about the Big Wind of 1839. The farmers had their crops in their haggards and the weather was very bad.
The sea-gulls were to be seen in large flocks in the fields. The wind had blown a gale all day, and as night came on it seemed to gather all its power.
Any person who ventured out that night was blown about like a ball and the doors had to be locked and barred or the roof of the house would be blown off. As morning dawned the wind calmed down and what a scene of devastation they beheld. Roofs off houses were blown out in the fields sheep were dead by the ditches, woods had big gaps cut through them(continues on next page)
- Informant
- William Gately
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Farming
- Address
- Kilteevan, Co. Roscommon
