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School: Killygordon (roll number 11585)

Location:
Killygordon, Co. Donegal
Teacher:
M. Eibhlín Ní Loinsigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1099, Page 337

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    Severe Weather.
    I heard the old people talk about a storm of wind that occurred about sixty years ago. It happened about the month of September but I cannot exactly say what year it happened in. It blew the corn out of the fields and blew down a lot of houses.
    Another storm of wind which occurred about forty years ago took the lives of two men not very far from here. The house the lived in fell on them, and killed them both sitting at their firesides.
    I can give no account of the Big Wind that occurred in 1839 as there is no person around here old enough to tell me anything about it.
    I heard of a great
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. processes and phenomena
      1. severe weather (~1,727)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Maud Guthrie
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Killygordon, Co. Donegal
    Informant
    Mrs Guthrie
    Relation
    Unknown
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    80
    Address
    Killygordon, Co. Donegal