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School: Teampall Mhuire

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Carbad Beg, Co. Mayo
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Eithne, Bean Uí Mhaonghaille
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0144, Page 453

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    top of their houses as chimney's, very low roods also with one or two small windows about a square foot each
    There were a few up to-date Protestant houses here and there through the country. When the storm arose all the people frightened and they did not know what to-do. They knew there little houses would not stand a half an hour. The big houses were packed with men, women, and children. They had to feed them and bed them some of them for a week and some of them for a fortnight, until they made some sort of huts for themselves
    A story is told of a child that was put into a churn on that night with the fuss and the rush. [?] was badly blown. They could not live in it for a few days. The roof was blew off it. The mats were blown out of the doors, and the churn
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. processes and phenomena
      1. winds (~357)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Bridie Lynn
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Cartoon, Co. Mayo
    Informant
    Anthony Lynn
    Relation
    Unknown
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Cartoon, Co. Mayo