Volume: CBÉ 0190

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1. Wake Games (continued)

   

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   There is a man living in Kilmore Quay at the present time "by the name of James Cousins but he is generally called Big Wind. The night he was born was an awful stormy night, There were hundreds and hundreds of trees blown down, and a lot of dwelling houses and righs of straw in a farmers' haggards were blown for miles. There was one man down in Kilmore on that night, and there was a rick of straw blown away on him, and when he got in the morning he couldn't see any sign of the straw.
   Which winds, or 'hurlwinds' one very plentiful in the vicinity of Kilmore. They generally come from the east, and usually on a day that there is not a breath of wind to be felt.

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   History Edit

   Date

   6 April 1936

   Item type

   Lore

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Roman script

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   • Tomás de Buitléir