School: Knocknagilla
- Location:
- Knocknagillagh, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: T. Mac Giolla Críost
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0979, Page 249
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- There was a great thunder storm on the fourteenth of August, 1914. People had to take shelter where they were from three p.m. until twelve p.m.
The people knew early in the day that the storm was near, because the sky darkened, and there were flashes of lightening occasionally.
The storm lasted for forty eight hours. It knocked a number of houses and killed a number of animals grazing in the fields. It knocked a number of trees in the woods and it also knocked several gates.
It knocked ricks of hay, and threw them completely away. There were no lives lost in this area.
- It is almost 99 years since the night of the "Big Wind" (as it is still called). It happened on the night of the 5th(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Luke Tierney
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Charles Tierney
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Aghadreenagh, Co. Cavan
