School: Crury (roll number 3134)
- Location:
- Creevy, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Martin Keegan
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- About forty years ago a fierce storm swept over this locality. It began one morning in the month of March 1894, a number of boats, and ships were out at sea but luckily enough they succeeded in getting ashore, before the storm burst forth in all its fury a farmer in this locality was just after completing a new house and thatching it, but on the morning following the outbreak of the storm it was completely stripped he them slated it.
A large number of trees were also knocked down on that day which as [sic] since been referred to as “The Big Wind”. Every old man or woman of the present day could tell of the Big Wind.- Collector
- Mary Mc Intyre
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- Female