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1. Severe Weather

   

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   In the year eighteen thirty-nine there was a terrible windstorm and it is known from that time as “the big wind”. It started in the evening and continued through the entire night. The people stood up the whole night to keep on the thatch and the galvanize. There was scarcely a house in the country that came safe from this storm and the roofs were blown off the houses that weren’t entirely blown down. The house now owned by the entire country but then owned by John Mac Cann and the house now owned by my father were all the houses in the country that were left untouched. The roofs of the houses built on uplands were blown down to the valleys and the roofs of seven were blown into John Mac Canns garden. The whole country’s flax was blown into a meadow belonging to Jimmy “the mad” called the Mad's bog. When every man went in the morning to look at his crop and to see was it much damaged it was blown away and it so much mixed up that is was no use. The day after the wind the people went in bands from house to house putting up temporary roofs on their houses as it was starting to snow and if there would be a fall these would be worse consequences than those following the big wind. The night of the big wind

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   Topics

   1. processes and phenomena
      1. severe weather (~1,727)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Philomena Clarke

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Ratrussan, Co. Cavan

   Informant

   Mr Jack Collins

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Edrans, Co. Cavan