School: Mullach, Sráid na Cathrach (roll number 3928)

Location:
Mullagh, Co. Clare
Teacher:
Proinnsias Ó Sandair
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0624, Page 055

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  1. In the year 1839 the night of "the big wind" the spire of the Mullagh Church was blown down.
    The Church was just completed. The spire was not rebuilt again. The stones were used to make the boundary walls and gate piers.
    The same night several houses and cabins were knocked and sheets of zinc were blown all over the country.
    In Shandrum the roof was blown off a house that was just thatched and brought a considerable distance and placed on a field just as it was on the house.
    The family slept under the roof until the house was repaired. The woman of this house was known as Máire an Óir.
    In the year 1922 in the month of June a terrible thunder storm came. It killed a man in this parish in Shanaway named Thomas Sullivan. It burned a furze fence in Doonogan. It burned several wynds of hay all over the parish.
    That very same year a sow and a litter of bonhams were killed in Pat Sexton
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. processes and phenomena
      1. severe weather (~1,727)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mícheál Ó Flanagáin
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Finnor More, Co. Clare
    Informant
    Séumas Ó Scannláin
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Finnor More, Co. Clare