School: Naomh Feichín, Cros (roll number 7075)

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   highest hill. There was a child four years of age put standing up in the chimney and she was saved. There wasn't a crow or bird left in the place that was not killed. It was on the "Twelfth Night" 1839.

   

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2. Severe Weather - The Big Wind

   

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   There was hard frost followed by hard snow in February eighteen seventy eight. The Corrib was so frozen that they carried turf on the backs of asses across the lake and they used have tables loaded with turf which they shoved before them from the Salthouse to Billypark. It is also stated that a man named Cotlam

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   Topics

   1. processes and phenomena
      1. winds (~357)

   Language

   English

   Informant

   Michael Cummins

   Relation

   Unknown

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Gortacurra, Co. Mayo