School: Killinaboy (roll number 12557)
- Location:
- Killinaboy, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Donncha Ó Céilleachair
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0614, Page 308
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- (continued from previous page)Told by: Thomas Cassidy, Ballycashen, her father
(60 years)
- Oidhche na gaoithe moiréIn the year 1839 there blew a great storm. It blew the roofs of several houses but Cusacks in particular in the mountain of Boultadine suffered most. It blew the roof off it, though it was safely secured, and even stitched as there was a special needle for stitching them at that time. It blew the roof off it and landed it in Dromoher and a scallop was not stirred from its place. It rested in a camp shape and the owners were able to sleep in it until their own house was thatched again. It is also said that the people found the salt water in their cabbage in this district a distance of nine miles as the crow flies from the Lahinch sea.
Collected by: - Máire Ní Choileáin, Dromoher
Told by Patrick Linnane, Dromoher. - Collector
- Máire Ní Choileáin
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Drummoher, Co. Clare
- Informant
- Patrick Linnane
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 75
- Address
- Drummoher, Co. Clare
- It is said that the night of the big wind in 1839, my great grandmother had a baby and the wind was so strong that she put the cradle under the kitchen table as she was afraid the roof of the house would fall on him.(continues on next page)
