School: Cill Ábhaill
- Location:
- Killavil, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Seán Ó Conláin
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- (continued from previous page)of harm. There was a lot of people lost. It is said that many of them went into fields and they went astray in the drifted snow & they were found dead in the snow afterwards. There were a lot of cattle & sheep that went seeking shelter during the snow and they were found dead because the people were unable to go searching for them. There is a story told about this storm. Once upon a time there was a man travelling in the snow and it is said that he walked up on a house and he went down the chimney.
Collected by: Moira Hunt
Heard from her father
John Hunt, Rathbawn
- The night of the big wind there was a man named Killoran who lived in Harristown. He went out to a neighbours house and when he went back his house was blown away and the timber and thatch was found about 3 miles away in Marla bog. This(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Bernadette Kilcawley
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballynacarriga, Co. Sligo
- Informant
- Domnick Kilcawley
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballynacarriga, Co. Sligo
