School: Drumkeelanmore (roll number 12525)
- Location:
- Drumkeelan More, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Mary Mc Rann
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0208, Page 326
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Drumkeelanmore
- XML Page 326
- XML “The Big Wind of 1839”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- In the month of January in the year of 1839 about ten oclock in the night the wind rose in awful fury. It blew over Ireland and European Countries. It blew ships into land and knocked down houses, all over the country. It frightened every person so much that he thought that it was the end of the world and any person heard it never forgot it and could always tell the story about "the night of the big wind".There is scarcely any person living at the present day that could tell of that night.
- Collector
- Oliver Mc Kernan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Aghnahoo, Co. Leitrim
