School: Leatbeg (roll number 16146)
- Location:
- Leat Beg, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Mrs Peoples
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You are not logged in, but you are welcome to contribute a transcription anonymously. In this case, your IP address will be stored in the interest of quality control.By clicking the save button you agree that your contribution will be available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License and that a link to dúchas.ie is sufficient as attribution. - About forty nine years ago there was a very great storm. It happened in the year eighteen eighty nine and it was the worst storm that even the old people saw.
There was a lot of harm done during that storm.
We ourselves had three corn stalks tumbled and there were ninety five stocks in one of them. They would all have been tumbled only my father and a servant boy called Barney McGonigle got out and got them tied with ropes.
The barrow also was lifted off the street and was carried down to the foot of the garden and one of the shafts was broken.
John Morrow told by my father William Morrow.
Leatbeg, Carrigart Lifford Age 59 years. Born and reared and spend all his life in Leatbeg.
