School: Lankill (roll number 16904)
- Location:
- Lankill, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Seán Ó Cibhil
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- One winter about ninety nine or a hundred years ago there came a great storm. It lasted several days and it did a great deal of distruction. No such storm was ever seen in Ireland before or since that time.
The storm knocked a great deal of sacks of oats and ricks of hay. Next day all the people were out gathering up their and oats. Sometimes they got their hay and oats in a neighbour's field. The neighbour would say it was his own and the other man would say it was his also. In this way they had a great deal of fights to see which of them would own the oats and hay.
In many places roofs were blown off stables and houses. Cattle(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Patrick Lavelle
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cordarragh North, Co. Mayo
