School: Leggah, Moyne (roll number 14328)
- Location:
- Leggagh, Co. Longford
- Teacher: Francis Gallagher
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0760, Page 470
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- In January eighteen thirty nine there was a very windy night.
And very few people alive know much about it.
About twelve o'clock the wind commenced, and it blew off the roofs of houses and the roofs of sheds and carried them away for about half a mile.
It also tossed ricks of hay and straw.
One old woman who was afraid that the house would fall on her went out and made a little hole in the hay rick for protection, and during the night the rick fell and in the morning the old woman was found dead and the house was safe.
