School: Knocknagilla
- Location:
- Knocknagillagh, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: T. Mac Giolla Críost
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0979, Page 250
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- (continued from previous page)and morning of 6th January in the year 1839.
The people at that time experienced a wonderful shock, when their homes were wrecked and their crops destroyed. The sky, as the old people say, was a wild red colour on the eve of the storm.
The wind blew from the west with the same high power al the time. It lasted about twelve hours, and the night was bright and dry.
People left their homes when the roofs were blown away, and took shelter along the ditches or wherever they got safety. Nine stacks of oats belonging to James Reilly Lavey, we're blown from his haggard into Lavey lake and was lost.
A fair used to be held in Crosskeys on the 6th of January, but could not on that day, as roads were blocked as a result of the wind. It was very much remarked all the births that were on that night.
- Collector
- Luke Tierney
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Charles Tierney
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Aghadreenagh, Co. Cavan
