School: Lankill (roll number 16904)
- Location:
- Lankill, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Seán Ó Cibhil
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- One night in the year eighteen thirty nine there was a great storm.
The roofs were blown off the houses and the stables. Roofs were blown off about twenty houses in Westport and people were killed. Nearly every stable in the country were unroofed and a lot of cattle were killed.
Stacks of oats were also knocked and blown about the country and the next morning all the people were out gathering up the oats. Some ricks of hay were also knocked and the people had to build them up again.
It is said to be the worst storm that was ever in Ireland.
- Collector
- Michael Lavelle
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cordarragh North, Co. Mayo
