School: Kill
- Location:
- Kill, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Brigid Timlin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1020, Page 057
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- The Great Wind of 1839 damaged, and in the majority of cases tossed, nearly all the houses in the country. The houses then were mud-walled and thatched. People erected shelters at the backs of ditches, until they got their houses repaired. It took 50 years to recover from its effect.
There was a great fall of snow about 45 years ago. In some places the snow was 50 ft deep. Tunnels were cut through it. It went away without rain; it lasted 7 wks. Ploughing was begun that year on 23rd March. The snow did the ground much good, and corn that year was cut three weeks earlier than usual.
- Collector
- Kathleen Smith
- Gender
- Female
