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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    1. agents (~1)
      1. historical persons (~5,068)
    2. processes and phenomena
      1. winds (~357)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Máire Ní Choileáin
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Drummoher, Co. Clare
    Informant
    Patrick Linnane
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    75
    Address
    Drummoher, Co. Clare
  2. 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.
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