School: Carrowbeg (roll number 10754)

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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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   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