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School: Carrowbeg (roll number 10754)

Location:
Carrowbeg, Co. Donegal
Teacher:
Rachel Nic an Ridire
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1118, Page 516

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    There was a terrible wind swept this countryside 4 days before xmas of 1896. It tossed houses and corn stacks and the latter were blown away to the sea in some places, or into other people's fields and it got mixed up. There was a roof taken off a house by the wind and when the people awoke in the morning the roof was off and the dresser was tossed in the kitchen.
    There was scarcely a house in Carrowmena Village that had not its roof blown off even to the "scraws". When the wind calmed off, a snowfall came about the New Year and continued so long, that a plough didn't go on the ground till after St. Patrick's day.
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. events
      1. hardship (~1,565)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Tillie Hutchinson
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Meenletterbale, Co. Donegal
    Informant
    James Elkin
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    72
    Address
    Moville, Co. Donegal
    Informant
    Samuel Hutchinson
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    66
    Address
    Meenletterbale, Co. Donegal