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1. Storm

   

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   Storm
   The Big Wind

   I remember to hear my father and mother talking of the big Wind of '39. Almost every house on the side of this mountain was stripped of its roof. A couple of houses that had good shelter from the storm had their roofs so badly twisted that they were little better than those that were unroofed. Whatever hay and oats people had was carried away with the storm in every direction. People around here had to leave their homes and seek shelter in the "Alths" (a local term for a deep cutting made by a river in a sandy bank) and such places.

   I heard my father say that the fish in Lough Scur (in the centre of Kiltubrid Parish) were blown up in hundreds out of the lake on to the surrounding country. He said that "Gowly shore was "bracket" with them.

   I heard a good deal more about that wind, but I forget

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